ABSTRACT
Tattooing is a form of body modification, made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment, and hence resulting (for the most part) in a permanent marking or scarring. Such modifications of the body appearance have been practised for centuries in various cultures since Neolithic times, yet it has also been the concern of some of the earliest and most recent investigations of criminologists and those working around the sociology of deviance.
