ABSTRACT
Yet it is not only as prohibition (or discipline, or indeed administrative/ actuarial criminology) that the ‘wider society’ engages with cultural forms that are tied in to the production of youth identity, including how images of crime are inscribed in this process (see Young 1996 for a more developed version of this argument). Let us now turn to how that other great agent of social reaction – the market – is participating in the process of promoting and marketing of transgression.
