The Key texts in cultural criminology are

 

Ferrell, J. and Sanders, C.R. (eds) (1995) Cultural Criminology. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press.

 

Ferrell, J., Hayward, K., Morrison, W. and Presdee, M. (eds) (2004) Cultural Criminology Unleashed. London: Glasshouse Press/Cavendish.

 

Ferrell, J., Hayward, K. and Young, J. (2015) Cultural Criminology: An Invitation Second Edition. London: Sage.

Chapter 1 – ‘Cultural Criminology: An Invitation’

 

Presdee, M. (2000) Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime. London: Routledge.

An eminently readable text on Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime (2000).

 

Ferrell, J. (1999) ‘Cultural criminology’, Annual Review of Sociology, 25: 395–418.

A good exposition of cultural criminology’s theoretical and methodological under­pinnings while acknowledging its heritage in 1970s’ British subcultural theory.

 

Here the original key text is the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies’ col­lection of working papers published in summer 1975 and reissued as, Hebdige, D. (1976a) ‘The meaning of mod’, in Hall, S. and Jefferson, T. (eds), Resistance through Rituals. London: Hutchinson.

 

The significance of style, particularly within punk, is given more detailed attention in  Hebdige, D. (1979) Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London: Methuen.

 

Redhead, S. (1993) Rave Off: Politics and Deviance in Contemporary Youth Culture.

Aldershot: Avebury.

An analysis of acid house and rave which remains one of the few serious attempts to explore the politics of 1990s’ youth culture.

 

McKay, G. (ed.) (1998) DIY Culture: Party and Protest in Nineties Britain. London: Verso.

A a useful overview of cultural politics and lifestyle politics in the 1990s.

 

Bennett, A. and Kahn-Harris, K. (eds) (2004) After Subculture: Critical Studies in Contemporary Youth Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Hodkinson, P. and Deicke, W. (eds) (2007) Youth Cultures: Scenes, Subcultures and Tribes. New York: Routledge.

Both examine the continuing value of subcultural theory in making sense of contemporary diverse youth ‘lifestyles’ and ‘scenes’.

 

Winlow, S. and Hall, S. (2006) Violent Night: Urban Leisure and Contemporary Culture. Oxford: Berg.  Study of youth nightlife is an important antidote to over-romanticized read­ings of youth leisure in a twenty-first century characterized by uncertain labour markets, consumerism and insecurity. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youth_subcultures

Provides a list and description of some 80 youth cultural and musical styles and is a useful reminder (whatever its current accuracy) of the constantly changing nature of contemporary subcultural forms.

www.urban75.com/Action/

News and information site for direct action, demos and campaigns against war, climate change and capitalism.

www.culturalcriminology.org/

The site of the cultural criminology group based at the University of Kent, UK with access to key papers.

www.globaljusticemovement.net/

Portal for the promotion of campaigns for peace and economic, monetary, environ­mental and social justice.

www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

A collective of independent media organizations and journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate news coverage.

www.internationaltimes.it/archive/

Site of International Times (IT) – the UK’s first 1960s’ underground newspaper, with access to its archive dating back to 1966.