SOCB50H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Late Modernity, Socalled, Juvenile Delinquency
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Graffiti exists as a paradoxical phenomenon- as both aesthetic practice and criminal activity. Its practitioners often vigorously assert its visual merit and its cultural value. Its detractors recommended removal from urban streetscape and the prosecution of graffiti writers it is also become an issue of great significance with public discourse and public debate. Pahlavi and invaded graffiti features as one of the activities targeted by legislation outlawing antisocial behavior. Academic writing on graffiti has approached it in a number of ways encompassing his analysis of the sociological subculture of juvenile delinquency of a historical phenomenon and a regulatory problem. In addition, there exist numerous books video games website and magazines devoted to graffiti reading from hip-hop culture culture jamming to stenciling. In short where graffiti is often thought of as destructive we would submit that it is all as affective as well.
