<strong>Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City</strong> offers an interpretive accountof juvenile delinquency within the modern inner city an environme... » 

Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City offers an interpretive accountof juvenile delinquency within the modern inner city an environment which ischaracterized by a long history of social deprivation and high rates of crime.A wide range of topics are explored such as young peoples motivation forfrequency of and attitudes towards a variety of illegal behaviors such asstreet robbery burglary theft drug use drug selling and violence. Why doyoung people commit these offences? Who do they commit them against? How dothey feel afterwards? This book attempts to answer these important theoreticalquestions utilizing ethnographic research collected over a seven year periodand based around the London inner city borough of Lambeth. «