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. . Language: English