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| Common Tagger<ref>Tagbangers, a derivative of tagging crews and gangs, are characterized by competition with other crews. Thus crossedout tags are features of their graffiti.</ref>||High-volume, accessible locations High-visibility, hard-to-reach locations May be stylized but simple name or nickname tag or symbols<ref>The single-line writing of a name is usually known as a tag, while slightly more complex tags, including those with two colors or bubble letters, are known as throw-ups.</ref> Tenacious (keep retagging) ||Notoriety or prestige Defiance of authority
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| Common Tagger<ref>Tagbangers, a derivative of tagging crews and gangs, are characterized by competition with other crews. Thus crossedout tags are features of their graffiti.</ref>||High-volume, accessible locations High-visibility, hard-to-reach locations May be stylized but simple name or nickname tag or symbols<ref>The single-line writing of a name is usually known as a tag, while slightly more complex tags, including those with two colors or bubble letters, are known as throw-ups.</ref> Tenacious (keep retagging) ||Notoriety or prestige<br>Defiance of authority
 
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Revision as of 12:35, 17 August 2012


Security issue: Graffiti

Grafitti is the defacement of property by means of writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed on a surface in a public place without the consent of the owner or person having custody or control.

Description

Motives for grafitti are various and the type of grafitti varies with the motives. A classification of types of grafitti with the associated features is presented in http://www.popcenter.org/problems/graffiti/. This classification is presented in the table below.

Types of Graffiti and Associated Motives
Type of Graffiti Features Motives
Gang[1] Gang name or symbol, including hand signs Gang member name(s) or nickname(s), or sometimes a roll-call listing of members Numbers[2] Distinctive, stylized alphabets[3] Key visible locations Enemy names and symbols, or allies' names Mark turf
Threaten violence
Boast of achievements
Honor the slain
Insult/taunt other gangs
Common Tagger[4] High-volume, accessible locations High-visibility, hard-to-reach locations May be stylized but simple name or nickname tag or symbols[5] Tenacious (keep retagging) Notoriety or prestige
Defiance of authority
Artistic Tagger Colorful and complex pictures known as masterpieces or pieces Artistic Prestige or recognition
Conventional Graffiti: Spontaneous Sporadic episodes or isolated incidents Play Rite of passage
Excitement Impulsive
Conventional Graffiti: Malicious or Vindictive Sporadic, isolated or systematic incidents Anger
Boredom
Resentment
Failure
Despair
Ideological Offensive content or symbols Racial, ethnic or religious slurs Specific targets, such as synagogues Highly legible Slogans Anger
Hate
Political
Hostility
Defiance

Attributing circumstances

  • Other grafitti or deterioration
  • Vulnerable objects
    • transportation systems
    • highly visible surfaces (also mobile targets, such as buses or trains!)
    • blank surfaces
    • light coloured surface
    • large and plain surfaces
    • reachable surfaces[6]
  • Absence of apparent ownership
  • Poor lighting
  • Little surveillance/oversight
  • Close to gang activity

Impacts

Measures

Footnotes and references

  1. ↑ Copycat graffiti looks like gang graffiti, and may be the work of gang wanna-bes or youths seeking excitement.
  2. ↑ Offenders commonly use numbers as code in gang graffiti. A number may represent the corresponding position in the alphabet (e.g., 13 = M, for the Mexican Mafia), or represent a penal or police radio code.
  3. ↑ Stylized alphabets include bubble letters, block letters, backwards letters, and Old English script.
  4. ↑ Tagbangers, a derivative of tagging crews and gangs, are characterized by competition with other crews. Thus crossedout tags are features of their graffiti.
  5. ↑ The single-line writing of a name is usually known as a tag, while slightly more complex tags, including those with two colors or bubble letters, are known as throw-ups.
  6. ↑ although hard-to-reach surfaces, such as motorway cross-overs might be regarded as attractive challenges

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