Mark Roodhouse
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199588459
- eISBN:
- 9780191747564
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199588459.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Cultural History
This chapter examines how membership of certain occupational and residential communities could encourage evasion. With the exception of a handful of communities such as the criminal underworld, this ...
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This chapter examines how membership of certain occupational and residential communities could encourage evasion. With the exception of a handful of communities such as the criminal underworld, this did not construe an oppositional subculture that rejected the values of conventional society. Even members of the underworld, however, had to be fluent in the language of motive used by conventional society if they wanted a more lenient court sentence.Less
This chapter examines how membership of certain occupational and residential communities could encourage evasion. With the exception of a handful of communities such as the criminal underworld, this did not construe an oppositional subculture that rejected the values of conventional society. Even members of the underworld, however, had to be fluent in the language of motive used by conventional society if they wanted a more lenient court sentence.
