Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice, College of Public Affairs at the University of Baltimore. He has been a visiting professor at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, and University of Padua, Italy. He has researched, written, and lectured primarily on corrections, policing, political crime, state crime, crimes of the powerful, violence, street culture, and crime and justice in American Indian communities for over two decades. Ross' work has appeared in many academic journals and books, as well as popular media. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of several books including the Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art (Routledge, 2016). In 2018, Ross was given the Hans W. Mattick Award, "for an individual who has made a distinguished contribution to the field of Criminology & Criminal Justice practice," from the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2020, he received the John Howard Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' Division of Corrections. The award is the ACJS Corrections Section's most prestigious award, and was given because of his "outstanding research and service to the field of corrections."

Foreword: From the Chicago School to the Routledge Handbook of Street Culture Introduction: Disentangling Street Culture PART I: Actors and Street Culture 1. A Street Culture of Homelessness 2. Currando las margenes: Roma Street Culture 3. Street Performers and Street Culture 4. How Municipal Police Interact with Street Culture 5. Youth Street Cultures: Between Online and Offline Circuits PART II: Activities Connected to Street Culture 6. Graffiti, Crime and Street Culture 7. From Graffiti to Gallery: The Street Art Phenomenon 8. Taxi Driving and Street Culture: Acquiring and Utilizing Street Knowledge 9. Skateboarding and Street Culture 10. Parkour and Street Culture: Conviviality, Law, and the Negotiation of Urban Space 11. Mobilising Street Culture: Understanding the Implications of the Shift from Lifestyle Bike Messengers to Gig Economy Workers 12. Street Vending and Everyday Life in an Authentic 21st Century 13. Private Uses Make Public Spaces: Street Vending in Ho Chi Minh City and Rome 14. Street Scavenging and Street Culture 15. Street Life and Masculinities 16. Gentrification's Impact on Street Life PART III: The Centrality of Crime to Street Culture 17. Street Culture and Street Crime: The Enduring and Unequivocal Link 18. The Code of the Street: Causes and Consequences 19. A Cross-Cultural Perspective of the Code of the Street 20. Street Culture and Street Gangs 21. Suburbia's Delinquent Street Cultures 22. Writing "Street Culture" Should be a Crime PART IV: Representations of Street Culture 23. The Relationship between Popular Culture and Street Culture: A Case Study of Baltimore 24. Portrayals of Street Culture in Hollywood Films 25. On the Street: Photography and the City 26. Street Styles Serenade: Urban Street Styles Emerging from Music Scenes 27. Re-Inventing Luxury in the Streets: An Assemblage View of the Relationship Between Luxury Brands and Street Culture 28. Language and Street Culture in the Big City 29. Street Food and Placemaking: A Cultural Review of Urban Practices 30. Digital Streets, Internet Banging, and Cybercrimes: Street Culture in A Digitized World

Discussions of street culture exist in a variety of academic disciplines, yet a handbook that brings together the diversity of scholarship on this subject has yet to be produced. The Routledge Handbook of Street Culture integrates and reviews current scholarship regarding the history, types, and contexts of the concept of street culture. It is comprehensive and international in its treatment of the subject of street culture. Street culture includes many subtypes, situations, locations, and participants, and these are explored in the various chapters included in this book. Street culture varies based on numerous factors including capitalism, market societies, policing, ethnicity, and race but also advances in technology. The book is divided into four major sections: Actors and street culture, Activities connected to street culture, The centrality of crime to street culture, and Representations of street culture. Contributors are well respected and recognized international scholars in their fields. They draw upon contemporary scholarship produced in the social sciences, arts, and humanities in order to communicate their understanding of street culture. The book provides a comprehensive and accessible approach to the subject of street culture through the lens of an inter- and/or multidisciplinary perspective. It is also intersectional in its approach and consideration of the subject and phenomenon of street culture.