Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate

By Diego Gambetta. 2009

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‘Going viral’ and ‘Going country’: the expressive and instrumental activities of street gangs on social media (2017, background): “Online collateral, or ‘hostage taking’ (see Gambetta 2009), was also used to bind people to the gang.”
Prosocial signaling and cooperation among Martu hunters (2015, background): “Signaling theory suggests that key to the prosocial nature of generosity is that it is kept honest through a kind of pecuniary disinterest: a distancing of the signaler from the immediate material and immaterial profits of his or her ownproduction (Bird & Bliege Bird, 2010; Gambetta, 2009).”
In the Shadow. Illegal Markets and Economic Sociology (2013, unknown): “Becoming a party in illegal transactions thus presupposes credible signals of trustworthiness on the side of the trust-taker (Gambetta, 2009) and intensive monitoring on the side of the trust-giver (Spremann, 1988, p.”
Why Do People Hurt Themselves? A New Conceptual Model of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (2018, background): “This may be especially evident in prison populations (Gambetta, 2009).”
Going to extremes: Social identity and communication processes associated with gang membership (2014, background): “…initiation of gang members, or being “jumped in,” explicitly involves established members of the group beating the inductees for a brief period, thereby signaling or communicatively extending the message of violence as being a core element of the group (Densley, 2012b; Gambetta, 2009; Vigil, 2008).”