TY  - JOUR
AU  - HALSEY, M
AU  - YOUNG, A
Y2  - 2014/05/21
Y1  - 2006
SN  - 1362-4806
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/11343/28590
AB  - Our aim in this article is to contribute to the body of research on graffiti by considering some of the hitherto hidden aspects of graffiti culture. Drawing on detailed interviews with graffiti writers, we examine four main themes: motivations for graffiti writing; thresholds dividing ‘art’ from ‘vandalism’; writers’ reactions to ‘blank’ surfaces; and graffiti’s relation to other types of crime. We orient our discussion towards the affective dimensions of the activity in the hope that the words of writers become a visible and productive presence in urban (and academic) space.
LA  - English
PB  - SAGE Journals
KW  - Criminology
T1  - Our Desires are Ungovernable: Writing Graffiti in Public Spaces
DO  - 10.1177/1362480606065908
IS  - Theoretical Criminology: an international journal
VL  - 10
IS  - 3
SP  - 275-306
L1  - /bitstream/handle/11343/28590/255781_54971.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=n
ER  -