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The Con Men : Hustling in New York City / Trevor Milton, Terry Williams.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Public CriminologyPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231170826
  • 9780231540490
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.16/3097471 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6795.N5 W55 2015
  • HV6795.N5 W55 2015eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. Alibi: Portrait of a Con Man -- Two. City Cons and Hustles -- Three. The Con Crew -- Four. The Con Game as Street Theater -- Five. Petty Street Hustles -- Six. Canal Street as Venus Flytrap -- Seven. The Numbers Game -- Eight. New York Tenant Hustles -- Nine. A Drug Hustle: The Crack Game -- Ten. NYPD and the Finest Cons -- Eleven. Wall Street Cons -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the sociological reasons why con artists play their game and the psychological tricks they use 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 precincts and Wall Street boiler rooms. Whether it's selling bootleg goods, playing the numbers, squatting rent-free, scamming tourists with bogus stories, selling knockoffs on Canal Street, or crafting Ponzi schemes, con artists use verbal persuasion, physical misdirection, and sheer charm to convince others to do what they want. Williams and Milton examine this act of performance art and find meaning in its methods to exact bounty from unsuspecting tourists and ordinary New Yorkers alike. Through their sophisticated exploration of the personal experiences and influences that create a successful hustler, they build a portrait of unusual emotional and psychological depth. Their work also offers a new take on structure and opportunity, showing how the city's unique urban and social architecture lends itself to the perfect con.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. Alibi: Portrait of a Con Man -- Two. City Cons and Hustles -- Three. The Con Crew -- Four. The Con Game as Street Theater -- Five. Petty Street Hustles -- Six. Canal Street as Venus Flytrap -- Seven. The Numbers Game -- Eight. New York Tenant Hustles -- Nine. A Drug Hustle: The Crack Game -- Ten. NYPD and the Finest Cons -- Eleven. Wall Street Cons -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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This vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the sociological reasons why con artists play their game and the psychological tricks they use 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 precincts and Wall Street boiler rooms. Whether it's selling bootleg goods, playing the numbers, squatting rent-free, scamming tourists with bogus stories, selling knockoffs on Canal Street, or crafting Ponzi schemes, con artists use verbal persuasion, physical misdirection, and sheer charm to convince others to do what they want. Williams and Milton examine this act of performance art and find meaning in its methods to exact bounty from unsuspecting tourists and ordinary New Yorkers alike. Through their sophisticated exploration of the personal experiences and influences that create a successful hustler, they build a portrait of unusual emotional and psychological depth. Their work also offers a new take on structure and opportunity, showing how the city's unique urban and social architecture lends itself to the perfect con.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)