The Con Men

A hard-edged guide to New York City swindles, street life, and culture, through direct interviews with con artists and hustlers.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Alibi: Portrait of a Con Man
2. City Cons and Hustles
3. The Con Crew
4. The Con Game as Street Theater
5. Petty Street Hustles
6. Canal Street as Venus Flytrap
7. The Numbers Game
8. New York Tenant Hustles
9. A Drug Hustle: The Crack Game
10. NYPD and the Finest Cons
11. Wall Street Cons
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Terry Williams is professor of sociology at the New School for Social Research. He specializes in teenage life and culture, drug abuse, crews and gangs, and violence and urban social policy. He is the author of TeenageSuicide Notes: An Ethnography of Self-Harm (Columbia, 2017); Harlem Supers: The Social Life of a Community in Transition (2015); Crackhouse: Notes from the End of the Line (1993); and The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring (1989); and is the founder and director of the Harlem Writers Crew Project, a multimedia approach to urban education for center city and rural youths.

Trevor B. Milton is assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. He is the author of Overcoming the Magnetism of Street Life: Crime-Engaged Youth and the Programs That Transform Them and the director of the documentary Modern Racism (2018). His areas of research include prison reform and alternative-to-incarceration programs and the intersectionality of class and racial identity.

Product details

• Authors: Trevor Milton, Trevor (Professor) Milton, Trevor B. Milton, Terry Williams, Terry Milton Williams
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780231170826
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17082-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Studies in Transgression; Studies in Transgression
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; New York, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, New York (state)