Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art

The Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art integrates and reviews current scholarship in the field of graffiti and street art. Thirty-seven original contributions are organized around four sections:

• History, Types, and Writers/Artists of Graffiti and Street Art;
• Theoretical Explanations of Graffiti and Street Art/Causes of Graffiti and Street Art;
• Regional/Municipal Variations/Differences of Graffiti and Street Art; and,
• Effects of Graffiti and Street Art.

Chapters are written by experts from different countries throughout the world and their expertise spans the fields of American Studies, Art Theory, Criminology, Criminal justice, Ethnography, Photography, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Visual Communication.

The Handbook will be of interest to researchers, instructors, advanced students, libraries, and art gallery and　museum curators.　

This book is also accessible to practitioners and policy makers in the fields of criminal justice, law enforcement, art history, museum studies, tourism studies, and urban studies as well as members of the news media. The Handbook 　includes 70 images, a glossary, a chronology, and the electronic edition will be widely hyperlinked.　

Author: Jeffrey Ian Ross
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08/08/2019
Pages: 532
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.80w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780367335977

About the Author
Jeffrey Ian Ross is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice, College of Public Affairs, and a Research Fellow of the Schaefer Center for Public Policy, and the Center for International and Comparative Law, both at the University of Baltimore.