From our December issue, Senior Editor
Katherine Mangu-Ward reviews Oxford sociologist Diego Gambetta's
book Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate,
which delves into the highly symbolic world of face-tattooed,
duel-scarred, razor-brandishing inmates, gangsters, and
criminals.
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