Codes of the underworld
Subtitle: how criminals communicate
By: Diego Gambetta.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780691119373
Subjects: Criminals; Communication; Criminals -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Criminal credentials; title: The power of limits; title: Compromising information as hostage; title: Why prisoners fight (and signal); title: Self-harm as a signal; title: Conventional signals; title: Protecting easy-to-fake signals; title: "Mafia" and other criminal trademarks; title: Nicknames; title: Why (low) life imitates art.