Maybe that business owner didn't have a lot of money," Vieraitis said. Well, but we had to clean it up, and it was costly. Learning offenders' thought processes can help officials address crime, Vieraitis said. Some said that by defacing property they were providing work for cleanup crews.
In addition to claiming that nobody got hurt, taggers said that instead of tagging, they could have been involved in gang activity or other crime. The researchers explored a theory in criminology that offenders use justifications to minimize or avoid guilt over their crimes. It's exciting, it's status-enhancing and it becomes addicting." "They find a lot of satisfaction in tagging. "They're teenagers, and they get bored," she said. Taggers said they got a rush from "getting up," or putting their moniker on public spaces, Vieraitis said. The youths interviewed for the study mostly lived in low-income neighborhoods where they said they did not have access to many recreational activities. "Although many people use social media to tell others that they had a good or bad day, taggers use walls." "We all want to be heard or be recognized for something we did, and taggers are no different," Vasquez said. The tag is the offender's personal alias, acronym or marking.
The study defined tagging as a type of graffiti not associated with gang activity. "If cities try to reduce graffiti by increasing the punishments, then they are not actually addressing the underlying motivations of why they do it in the first place." From a policy point of view, it is important to understand the taggers' motivations," Vasquez said. "By going out and talking with active taggers, we were able to gain better insight into why they do it. Vasquez, who has experience working with at-risk youths, made contacts in the tagging community to arrange the interviews. Lynne Vieraitis, associate professor and program head of criminology, conducted the research with Arthur Vasquez, a criminology doctoral student at UT Dallas and senior lecturer in criminology and criminal justice at The University of Texas at Arlington. With that, in no particular order the 25 Greatest NYC Graffiti Artists of the 1980s. We respectfully share these images to recognize the talent of these artists. We’ve tried to enhance the quality of the original pictures for your enjoyment. The study, published in the academic journal Deviant Behavior, found that the taggers paint graffiti to relieve boredom and stress, and gain recognition for their artistic talents.ĭr. This list is not even close to comprehensive. The researchers' goal is to help policymakers design better solutions to address tagging. Two criminologists from the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences interviewed 25 Dallas taggers to explore why they paint graffiti and how they rationalize the crime.
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