Focuses on the specific role played by forms of youth culture in acts of disobedience and deviancy.

Examines a wide range of case studies, from the private spaces of the teenage bedroom to the public streets of riot-torn Bristol. 

The Subcultures Network was formed as the Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change in 2011. The Network's steering committee comprises Keith Gildart (University of Wolverhampton), Anna Gough-Yates (University if Roehampton), Sian Lincoln (Liverpool John Moores University), Bill Osgerby (London Metropolitan University), Lucy Robinson (University of Sussex), John Street (University of East Anglia), Pete Webb (University of the West of England) and Matthew Worley (University of Reading).