What is street art? Who is the street artist? Why is street art a crime? Since the late 1990s, a
distinctive cultural practice has emerged in many cities: street art, involving the placement of …

How do poverty, youth and crime relate to the concept of being'cool'? Jonathan Ilan presents
a unique, theoretically informed overview of street culture in various parts of the world–its …

The Criminalization series arose from an interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization,
focussing on the principles that might guide decisions about what kinds of conduct should …

Recent criminological research has engaged with images of crime such that there
increasingly appears to exist a need for a specifically visual criminology. Within visual …

How does society hold its police to account? It'sa vital part of upholding law and liberty but
changing modes of policing delivery and new technologies call for fresh thinking about the …

This paper is concerned with UK insolvency practice. It considers how the field of insolvency
has developed since the passing of the Insolvency Act 1986 through a Bourdieusian …

This article draws together two distinct strands within contemporary criminological
scholarship by focusing on the encounter between the criminal law and the …

The citation above, of a participant in our study who describes his first image of graffiti that
comes to mind, summarizes our argument: public opinions on disorder (graffiti, in this case) …

This article is concerned with ideas of urban order and considers the scope for playing with
people's expectations of order. In particular, drawing on criminological, philosophical and …

The history of American policing, behavior criminalization, and carceral justice is rooted in
racist practice dating back to the 1700s. In addition to racially disproportionate punishment …