The book is well written and a pleasure to read … Understanding Street Culture is an important text for academics, researchers, and criminal justice stakeholders interested in understanding how young peoples’ street cultural existences are regulated and thrust into contact with the law. It emphasizes the urgency of disrupting the perpetual criminalization of street culture and how, moving forward, this ... Read morerequires ‘more than the ‘business as usual’ of standard criminal justice practice’.
Angela Dwyer, Jeunesse, jeunessejournal.ca, Vol. 9 (1)
‘Understanding Street Culture’ by Jonathan Ilan is a book about the manifestations of street culture; what it is, how it came to be, the implications of it on mainstream society, and the effects mainstream society has on it … The book is a useful source for others to develop research on this important topic … Learning from Ilan’s book would offer a different way to consider how marginalization shapes adolescent development and outcomes.
Billie Endress, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Vol. 45
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