Taxing Times: Inter-Criminal Victimization And Drug Robbery Amongst The English Professional Criminal Milieu
Treadwell, James and Ancrum, Craig and Kelly, Craig (2018) Taxing Times: Inter-Criminal Victimization And Drug Robbery Amongst The English Professional Criminal Milieu. Deviant Behavior.
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Abstract
This article considers the oft-hidden instances of inter-criminal victimization in illegal drug markets amongst serious criminals in the North of England. Focusing on proto-criminal activity known in regional argot as ‘taxing’ (drug dealers robbing one another) it draws on ethnographic material and suggests that contrast to the literature on the subject from the USA ‘taxing’ in England rarely leads to cycles of retaliatory violence. Yet against a more general climate of precariousness in disadvantaged communities in England, ‘taxing’ as a deviant behavior is a gainful, relatively low-risk activity for a minority of established, professional violent criminals.
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| Subjects: | CAH15 - social sciences > CAH15-01 - sociology, social policy and anthropology > CAH15-01-02 - sociology CAH15 - social sciences > CAH15-04 - health and social care > CAH15-04-01 - social work CAH15 - social sciences > CAH15-01 - sociology, social policy and anthropology > CAH15-01-01 - social sciences (non-specific) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences > Dept. Criminology and Sociology | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Elizabeth Yardley | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2019 13:15 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 03 Mar 2022 15:55 | ||||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/6983 |
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