Jonathan Ilan

Understanding Street Culture (eBook, PDF)

Poverty, Crime, Youth and Cool

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An insightful and theoretically informed overview of street culture in various parts of the world - its origins, functions, manifestations and appeal - examining both its bearing on criminal lifestyles and on the cultivation of 'cool.' Contemporary examples and original research are used to evidence new ways of thinking about street culture today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137028600
• Artikelnr.: 47896423

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Ilan is Lecturer in Criminology and Director of Studies for BA Criminology at the University of Kent, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 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.