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Last broadcast on Mon, 5 Oct 2009, 00:15 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Laurie Taylor discusses the language of crime and the codes of criminal communication with Diego Gambetta, mafia scholar and criminal sociologist. He finds out why, in order to survive in the criminal underworld, language requires subtle, coded and sometimes gruesome modes of communication to avoid being found out by rivals or police.
Laurie is joined by Dick Hobbs, sociologist from the LSE, to find out why the language of the criminal underworld is often written in code.
Also, what makes a scandal? Ari Adut from the University of Texas discusses.
Ari Adut
Ari Adut, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin
On Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics, and Art
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; illustrated edition edition
ISBN-10: 0521895898
ISBN-13: 978-0521895897
Diego Gambetta
Diego Gambetta, Nuffield fellow and Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford
Codes of the Underworld: How criminals communicate
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-10: 0691119376
ISBN-13: 978-0691119373
Dick Hobbs
Dick Hobbs, Professor in Sociology with special reference to Criminology, Head of Department at London School of Economics
Broadcasts
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Wed 30 Sep 200916:00
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Mon 5 Oct 200900:15
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