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This book represents the first attempt to step inside the holiday experience of young British tourists in San Antonio, Ibiza. Briggs´ ethnographic study reveals the ugly truth about how and why they get involved in deviance and risk-taking when they go abroad, driven by self validation and a commodified social context.

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1. Introduction 2. The Flexible but Entirely Serious Methodology 3. The Theoretical Framework for the Study 4. Ibiza: The Research Context 5. Goin´ Ibiza: Home Lives and the Holiday Hype 6. Constructing Ibiza: The Holiday Career and Status Stratification 7. ´You can be who you want to be, do what you want to do´: Identity and Unfreedom 8. The Political Economy: Consumerism and the Commodification of Everything 9. Capitalismo Extremo: Risk-taking and Deviance in Context 10. Going Home...Only to Come Back Out 11. Discussion and Conclusion 12. Meanwhile Across the Mediterranean...(or so some wish)

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Daniel Briggs is Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice at University of East London, UK. He is author of Crack Cocaine Users: High Society and Low Life in South London (2012), editor of The English Riots of 2011: A Summer of Discontent (2012) and co-author of Assessing the Use and Impact of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (2007).

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