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Book SynopsisJonathan Ilan is Lecturer in Criminology and Director of Studies for BA Criminology at the University of Kent, UK. He has researched youth cultures in Dublin and published numerous journal articles in the field of cultural criminology.
Trade ReviewThe book is well written and a pleasure to read … Understanding Street Culture is an important text for academics, researchers, and criminal justice stakeholders interested in understanding how young peoples’ street cultural existences are regulated and thrust into contact with the law. It emphasizes the urgency of disrupting the perpetual criminalization of street culture and how, moving forward, this requires ‘more than the ‘business as usual’ of standard criminal justice practice’. * Angela Dwyer, Jeunesse, jeunessejournal.ca, Vol. 9 (1) *
‘Understanding Street Culture’ by Jonathan Ilan is a book about the manifestations of street culture; what it is, how it came to be, the implications of it on mainstream society, and the effects mainstream society has on it … The book is a useful source for others to develop research on this important topic … Learning from Ilan’s book would offer a different way to consider how marginalization shapes adolescent development and outcomes. * Billie Endress, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Vol. 45 *
Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Understanding Urban Poverty, Culture and Crime 3. Demography and Development: Class, Gender and Ethnicity 4. Space, Territory and Gangs 5. Street Life and Street Crime 6. From Street Expressivity to Commodifiable Cool 7. Street Flows in the Global Ghetto 8. Resistance, Ghetto Politics and the Social Control of the Slum 9. Conclusion.
