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Chapter 18

Anyone concerned to understand the history of adult concerns about the young should start with Geoffrey Pearson's Hooligan: A History of Respectable Fears (Macmillan, 1983). On subcultures, there are good collections of readings in the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies' Resistance through Rituals (Hall and Jefferson, Hutchinson, 1976) and Sarah Thornton's The Subcultures Reader (Routledge, 1997). Dick Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style (Methuen, 1979) remains the classic cultural studies text on 'style'. David Downes's The Delinquent Solution (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966) and Howard Parker's View From the Boys (David and Charles, 1974) set the standard in Britain for the sociological study of male delinquency. Anyone interested in finding out what cultural criminology can provide, rather than listening to claims on its behalf, should turn to Jeff Ferrell's remarkable Empire of Scrounge (State University of New York Press, 2006). The changing nature of being young in the second half of the twentieth century was accompanied by a noisy soundtrack, and should be understood in that context. Writing on popular music is even more a matter of taste than is criminological literature. However, to my mind, it is pretty hard to beat Nik Cohn's Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom (Paladin, 1970), Charlie Gillett's The Sound of the City (Souvenir Press, 1983), Jon Savage's England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock (Faber & Faber, 1991), Mark Neal and Murray Foreman's That's the Joint: the Hip Hop Studies Reader (Routledge, 2004) and (once again) Nik Cohn's Triksta (Harvill Secker, 2005). Anyone interested in exploring patterns of youthful offending, drug use, and victimization should consult the reports from the two Youth Lifestyles Surveys, the recent Crime and Justice, and Offending, Crime and Justice Surveys, as well as the annual MORI surveys commissioned by the Youth Justice Board (all of which are available on the Home Office and YJB websites).