Con men hustling in New York City
Selling bootleg goods, playing the numbers, squatting rent-free, scamming tourists with bogus stories, selling knockoffs on Canal Street, and crafting Ponzi schemes#x97;this vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the sociological reasons why con artists play the game, and the psychologi...
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| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in transgression.
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| Online Access: | Link to e-book |
| Summary: | Selling bootleg goods, playing the numbers, squatting rent-free, scamming tourists with bogus stories, selling knockoffs on Canal Street, and crafting Ponzi schemes#x97;this vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the sociological reasons why con artists play the game, and the psychological dynamics they exploit to win it. Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton, two prominent sociologists and ethnographers, spent years with New York con artists to uncover their secrets. The result is an unprecedented view into how con games operate, whether in back alleys and side streets or in police pre. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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| ISBN: | 0231540493 9780231540490 |
Table of Contents:
- Alibi : portrait of a con man
- City cons and hustles
- The con crew
- The con game as street theater
- Petty street hustles
- Canal street as venus flytrap
- The numbers game
- New York tenant hustles
- A drug hustle : the crack game
- NYPD and the finest cons
- Wall Street cons.