Alessandro Moretti

The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting

An Ethnography of Deviant Entrepreneurship

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an ethnographic study of contemporary ticket touts in the UK.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Organised Crime
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780367767860
• ISBN-10: 0367767864
• Artikelnr.: 66269248

Autorenporträt

Alessandro Moretti is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Global Criminology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

1 "A broadband connection and some guile and off you go": Introduction 2
The deviant entrepreneur, exploring economic opportunities in the "zones of
ambiguity": Literature review 3 "You will receive your money as promised.
Don't even begin to think it's okay to threaten me": Methodology 4 "It's
who you know, not what you know": How touts buy and sell tickets 5 A
categorisation of touts: The scale of deviousness 6 "I was arrested,
banned, and received a fine of £1,000 - the best thing that ever happened
to me": The art of street touting 7 A case study of an online tout: The
"glory days" and the future 8 "Why is it legal when Ticketmaster does it?":
Non-deviant identity formulation through techniques of neutralisation 9
When a ticket is available on Viagogo the "damage" has already been done:
Conclusion