Some of us have always argued that graffiti is art not crime, but this exhibition in London, What is Crime? has an interesting take on graffiti in the context of political violence, among many other images suggesting that neglect and infringement of civil freedoms are the real obscenity in our world, not acts committed by petty criminals. (Anyone over that side of the water able to go see it and write us a review?)
As the above link to the exhibition includes the filepath "currentexhibition.htm" it probably won't remain true beyond the August end of this show, at which point you'll find it in the archive. A brief discourse on the graffiti image can be found at the King's news site (as students at the Center for Crime and Justice at that college co-organized the exhibition).
So what is the crime?
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