THE PERCEPTION OF CRIME

It comes as little surprise that the hooded top is now associated with deviant behaviour. The only real surprise is how long it took for this link to be firmly established in people's minds.

Don't get me wrong, I personally like to see the hood on an item of clothing, it adds a certain cosiness to the garment in a way that nothing else can. But, historically, hoods are not the domain of the law-abiding citizen.

Rasputin is commonly portrayed as wearing a hood, and there was a movie about him entitled "The Mad Monk". Not "The Sane, Law-abiding Monk". That film was about a different guy. Rasputin was, among other things, manipulative and very nearly unkillable. I think the Russians tried to kill him in about a dozen different ways before they finally succeeded; you know, poisoning him, shooting him, drowning him. The anti-social behaviour order was not, to the best of my knowledge, tried on the mad monk, but I doubt it would have made much difference.