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It’s just a plain, structured, medium-crown, black baseball cap. No logo, no team name, and kind of boring. And that’s the point. But let’s deconstruct this a little. It has to be black, the same way my knitted longshoreman’s cap is black. It also can’t be boxy, narrow, have a large visor, or be made […]
The Portuguese edition of Introduction to Convict Criminology (2024) comes as Brazil’s prison population is climbing again after a COVID-era dip. Published as Introdução à Criminologia dos Condenados by @editoradplacido, the book brings Convict Criminology to a growing Portuguese-speaking audience at a time when Brazil’s prison system faces enormous challenges. There is a relatively small […]
Search Amazon using the term street culture, and you’ll find countless books about gangs, graffiti, street art, policing, homelessness, drug markets, skateboarding, street fashion, or urban crime, but relatively few that explicitly examine street culture as an overarching concept. Why is that? Part of the reason is that researchers tend to study one aspect of […]
During the late 1970s, I got my start driving cab for Beck Taxi in Toronto. Their business at the time was disproportionately located in the east end, above and below the Danforth. We got calls from the projects in Regent Park and the low-income housing at Main and Gerrard, but most business came from working-class […]
Many academic organizations hold annual conferences where participants present papers to colleagues working in the same field. But no learned society that specializes in the scholarly area of graffiti and street art studies, that could hold annual meetings, exists. Although selected colleges and universities have held one-off conferences on this subject, over the past few decades […]
