Codes of the underworld

how criminals communicate

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Language
English
Pages
336

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Codes of the underworld: how criminals communicate
2009, Princeton University Press
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Table of Contents

Criminal credentials
The power of limits
Compromising information as hostage
Why prisoners fight (and signal)
Self-harm as a signal
Conventional signals
Protecting easy-to-fake signals
"Mafia" and other criminal trademarks
Nicknames
Why (low) life imitates art.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Princeton

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.301/4
Library of Congress
HV6085 .G36 2009, HV6085.G36 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
336

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23165425M
ISBN 13
9780691119373
LCCN
2009006822
OCLC/WorldCat
243550245
Library Thing
8874855
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6746118

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