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Criminal Activity Among Young Adults in the Club Scene.

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: Excerpt The modern all-night dance club culture has its most recent roots in the adolescent rave and gay male circuit party subcultures that emerged in the late 1980s, with more distant connections to the earlier New York nightclub scene epitomized by Studio 54 (Fritz, 1999; Kurtz, Inciardi, Surratt, & Cottler, 2005; Silcott, 1999; Thornton, 1996). This type of night life is found in almost every large city but is especially prevalent in major tourist destinations where people tend to be looking for an escape from their routines. This concept is represented in such slogans as “What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas® .” Miami, historically a major tourist destination and since the early 1970s a national center for cocaine importation, distribution, and use (Didion, 1987; Portes & Stepick, 1993), is also a major player in the U.S. club culture.

Source: PubMed

Authors: Steven P Kurtz, James A Inciardi, Elisa Pujals

Institution: University of Delaware

Language: English

Topic: Night-time city culture

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute on Drug Abuse

Award: A Self-Assessment Intervention for Young Adult Polydrug Users at Risk for HIV