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Also known as: aerosol art, graffito
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Glen D. Curry
Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri at St. Louis. Coauthor of Confronting Gangs: Crime and Community.
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graffiti, form of visual communication, usually illegal, involving the unauthorized marking of public space by an individual or group. Although the common image of graffiti is a stylistic symbol or phrase spray-painted on a wall by a member of a street gang, some graffiti is not gang-related. Graffiti can be understood as antisocial behaviour performed in order to gain attention or as a form of thrill seeking, but it also can be understood as an...

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