Graffiti why people do it

Spontaneous graffiti may reflect local traditions and appear on "fair targets" such as abandoned buildings or schools. Communities have often tolerated such graffiti See Table 1. The motives for some types of conventional graffiti may include anger and hostility toward society, and the vandalism thus fulfills some personal psychological need. A related type of graffiti is ideological.

Ideological graffiti expresses hostility or a grievance—often quite explicitly. Such graffiti is usually easily identified by its content, reflecting a political, religious, ethnic, or other bias. Offenders may strategically target certain locations to further the message.

In contrast to conventional and ideological graffiti, the primary motive for gang graffiti is tactical; the graffiti serves as a public form of communication—to mark turf, convey threats or boast of achievements. Some tagger graffiti may involve creative expression, providing a source of great pride in the creation of complex works of art.

Most taggers seek notoriety and recognition of their graffiti—they attach status to having their work seen. A number may represent the corresponding position in the alphabet e. Thus crossed-out tags are features of their graffiti. Graffiti offenders are typically young and male. In one study, most offenders were ages 15 to 23; many of the offenders were students. Offenders may typically be male, inner-city blacks and Latinos, but female, as well as white and Asian, participation is growing.

Tagging is not restricted by class lines. In Sydney, Australia, graffiti offenders, while mostly boys, include girls; offenders are typically ages 13 to Graffiti offenders typically operate in groups, with perhaps 15 to 20 percent operating alone.

Graffiti offenders often use spray paint, although they may also produce graffiti with large markers or by etching, the latter especially on glass surfaces. Glass etching fluids include acids, such as Etch Bath and Armour Etch, developed as hobby products for decorating glass. Vandals squirt or rub the acids onto glass. In New York City, when transit system personnel used paint solvents to remove graffiti, offenders adapted by spraying a surface with epoxy, writing their graffiti and then coating the surface with shellac, which proved very difficult to remove.

The making of graffiti is characterized by anonymity—hence relative safety from detection and apprehension. Most offenders work quickly, when few people are around. Graffiti predominantly occurs late on weekend nights, though there is little systematic evidence about this. In British transit studies, graffiti incidents typically occurred in off-peak or non-rush hours.

Thursdays through Sundays. Offenders tagged school walls daily. There is widespread concern that participation in graffiti may be an initial or gateway offense from which offenders may graduate to more sophisticated or harmful crimes. Graffiti offenders who operate as members of gangs or crews may also engage in fighting. However, I would think that it should be some specific areas allowed to do this activity because otherwise, individuals' properties can be damaged. I think graffiti is not vandalism.

It,s just free and they are painted with love. I think vandalism is the money that politicians get to let false companies put their ads on the wall. Money make everything vandalism. I think graffiti must become fully legal because graffiti is little bit lifestyle and 'The Pen of Freedom'. In my opinion, graffities are beautiful to see, but they have to transmit a message.

This type of graffities is art but only if you have the permission to draw on the wall. The other type of graffities is considered as vandalism because you don't ask the owner of the wall to let you draw on his property, which can create many problems and conflicts. But after all, I would say that the job of tagger can bring a lot of money for the perfectionists of drawing. From my point of view, grafitti is a two-edged sword. I think it is all based on how people create it.

Sure, different motives means diversities in art. I support grafitti as a kind of art. I like graffiti itis a form of expresion when shows creativy and talent. I like Graffiti because it expresses in some sense; art. Graffiti in a Wall ls fantastic, and in trains is bad. I don't like the graffiti. In my city we have very much graffiti, the magourity ir tags, made by teenagers. But sometimes it shows creativity and talent.

I think graffiti is really art. It is very nice and beautiful. My opinion is that graffiti is actually a pretty old art, but comparing to the others, its new. And that sometimes its actually vandalism. Have u seen those useless graffities like "SFEK"? Well, if u were at least 1 time oustide and not staring at the computer for 5 hours, then, i think, you might say, that those are pretty common, huh?

I think graffiti is actually really cool, if they make it in a right places. In my opinion, creating graffiti is also a good way to express feelings. I think it may be both art and vandalism.

I think that graffiti is an art form. It gives the opportunity to many people to express their feelings and thoughts by making wonderful drawings on walls. However, graffiti can destroy many properties and in that case it becomes a serious crime. Personally I dont like graffitis, here on Mexico, everywhere there is a wall full of grafittis, and to be honest, the taggs are funny and dumb, like "aqui estuvo el dedos" haha I don't think that it is art, but although sometimes I have founded beatiful paintings.

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