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| Crimes Of Style: Urban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeff Ferrell
Publisher: Northeastern
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 757986
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1555532764
Dewey Decimal Number: 302.222
EAN: 9781555532765
ASIN: 1555532764
Publication Date: July 3, 1996
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Jeff Ferrell draws on his own extensive field research to thoroughly examine the practices of graffiti artists. Focusing on the city of Denver, he takes a close look at the war against graffiti and the interplay between cultural innovation and institutionalized intolerance, arguing that coordinated corporate and political campaigns to suppress and criminalize graffiti writers further disenfranchises the young, the poor, and people of color.
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Pathbreaking anarchist criminology! September 27, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ferrell offers a major contribution to sociology, criminology, and to youth studies. This brief book not only offers insight and analysis of graffiti artists, it explores the ways in which power is negotiated and challenged. In the graffiti artists' use of space and in their definitions of beauty and neighborhood, they uncover the way power and meanings are manufactured. Ferrell's work is a powerful, clear, and engaging book; one which shows stunning new ways of seeing and studying 'crime.'
An excellent insight into the culture of tags and piecing April 12, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Crimes of Style is a journey into the burgeoning underground Denver Graffiti scene. Jeff Ferrel's participant observations of local taggers and writers gives a fascinating insight into a sometimes beautiful and sometimes offensive subculture of vandalism....or is it? The question of vandalism or art remains an underlying question throughout Ferrel's book. And the reader must decide for himself where the line between art and crime stands. Jeff Ferrel's work is divine inspiration to the fledgling sociologists like myself.
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