It will attempt to bring together some elements of language and selected aspects of the social structure of a single criminal subculture. INTRODUCTION This book is an experiment in what might be called the social structure of language. VIII Money and Valuables IX The Thief and the Law X Skills and Training XI Places to Work XII Ethics and Morals The Word-Finder List M.ĬONTENTS Introduction I The Nature of Professional Crime II The Pickpocket and Legitimate Society III The Place of the Pickpocket in the Underworld IV Usage Levels of the Pickpocket V The Act of Theft VI Different Types of Mobs VII The Mark Grant to help defray the costs of soundrecording, transcription, and clerical assistance in connection with this project. The Research Committee of the Arts College of the University of Louisville very kindly provided a modest research The thieves and pickpockets, who must remain anonymous, should receive credit for cooperating in the collection of raw materials, both linguistic and sociological, upon which this book is based. To the American Dialect Society, I am particularly indebted for having originally published this material in their November, 1955, issue of the Publication of the American Dialect Society, No. To Professor Thomas Pyles of the University of Florida, Secretary of theĪmerican Dialect Society, I am indebted for his patience and his editorial counsel. Everett DeBaun, now of New York City, was especially helpful in the early phases of the study by assisting in field-work and verification, the recording of illustrative materials, and the analysis of raw data. Bissmeyer, now a graduate student at Indiana University, assisted with soundrecording. Stuart Flexner, now of New York City, did some work on the early version of the glossarial materials on which this study is based. Robert O’Hara, now of the University of Minnesota, and Mr. Generously volunteered her skilled stenographic assistance in the transfer of interview materials to typescript. Lindsay Almand, my graduate assistant at the University of Louisville, has done much of the excerpting of pertinent materials, outlining, and transcription. She also assisted in the early stages of the field-work and interviewing. My wife, Barbara Maurer, not only has handled most of the typing and proofreading connected with this project, but has brought to it her very sound counsel based on long experience in this field. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 6413962 ISBN: 978-0-7425-3351-6 Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences- Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.ĪCKNOWLEDGMENTS Several people have helped in the preparation of this book, and I wish to extend to them my thanks and warm acknowledgments for their assistance. May be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. First Rowman & Littlefield edition published in 2003 All rights reserved. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 PO Box 317, Oxford, OX2 9RU, UK Copyright © 1964 by College and University Press Services, Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. Published in the United States of America by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. WHIZ MOB A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern III The Place of the Pickpocket in the Underworld. II The Pickpocket and Legitimate Society.
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