Understanding street culture : poverty, crime, youth and cool / Jonathan Ilan.

"An insightful and theoretically informed overview of street culture in various parts of the world - its origins, functions, manifestations and appeal - examining both its bearing on criminal lifestyles and on the cultivation of 'cool.' Contemporary examples and original research are used to evidence new ways of thinking about street culture today"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding urban poverty, culture and crime -- Demography and development : class, gender and ethnicity -- Space, territory and gangs -- Street life and street crime -- From street expressivity to commodifiable cool -- Street flows in the global ghetto -- Resistance, ghetto politics and the social control of the slum.