SSPSSR’s Director of Studies for BA Criminology, Dr Jonathan Ilan, will be presenting a paper entitled ‘… Another Law for the Poor’? Street culture, social control and the norms of the excluded’ at the Kent Law School staff seminar on Wednesday 11 March .
The paper reflects on ‘street culture’: the values, norms, styles, practices and behaviours particularly associated with the poorest sections of the urban disadvantaged. It argues that not only do such socio-economic positions contribute to a particular normativity which is associated with crime and violence, but that the marks of this position are read as such by agents of social control.
Dr Ilan’s book ‘Understanding Street Culture: Poverty, crime, youth and cool’ will be published next month.