Introduction: Rebels of the Road 1. Car Cultures and Deviance 2. Setting the Scene: The History of Aberdeen’s Boy Racers 3. Fuelling the Panic: Societal Concern and Media Images of the Boy Racer 4. The Politics of the Road: Policing, Governing and Educating the Boy Racer 5.'We're not Boy Racers but they are': The Stickiness of Labels 6. Rites of the Road: 'Modding', Subcultural Media and Public Performances 7. Gendered Interactions in the Boy Racer Culture 8. Conclusion: Contested Realities.
Biography
Dr Karen Lumsden is a Lecturer in Sociology at Loughborough University, UK and was formerly a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Abertay Dundee. She has a PhD in Sociology, a Masters in Social Research, and a MA (Hons) in Sociology from the University of Aberdeen. Her research interests include youth culture, car culture, crime and deviance, gender, moral panics, policing and qualitative research methods.
