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Understanding street culture : poverty, crime, youth and cool /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ilan, Jonathan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Subjects:
Inner cities.
Street life.
City and town life.
Crime.
Urban youth > Social conditions.
Urban poor > Social conditions.
Sociology, Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
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Table of Contents:
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  • 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.