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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 […]
Although textbooks, journal articles, and lectures are important, movies are one of the most effective teaching tools available to criminology and criminal justice instructors. They can communicate ideas, emotions, institutional realities, and ethical dilemmas in ways that the written word often struggles with. Throughout my teaching career, I have selectively incorporated narrative films into my […]
Almost a half-century ago, one of the first purchases I made in preparation for leaving my parents’ house was a Hudson’s Bay Company wool point blanket. I walked into the HBC department store at suburban Fairview Mall, found the item with its iconic wide green, red, yellow, and indigo horizontal stripes on a white background, […]
