ABSTRACT
In examining how and why young people become involved in street robbery, a number of issues need to be addressed. First, we need to establish where the will to consume the objects street robbers wish to appropriate through robbery comes from. Second, we need to consider why they appropriate these objects of desire through the medium of street robbery, as opposed to appropriating desirable goods through more legitimate avenues. Third, we must then explain why only some young people come to engage in street robbery as the chosen strategy of appropriation. This, as we shall see, will mean examining the characteristics of the outlaw cultures where street crime is practised and, not least, attending to the seductions and pleasures attendant on the act of street robbery itself.
