Taxing Times

Inter-Criminal Victimization And Drug Robbery Amongst The English Professional Criminal Milieu

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2153222
AutoresJames Treadwell (0000-0001-9848-2869, School of Law, Policing and Forensics, Staffordshire University, UK, autor de correspondencia), Craig Ancrum (Criminology, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK), Craig Kelly (0000-0003-4917-9809, Birmingham City University)
Año2020
Volumen41
Número1
Páginas57-69
Fecha de publicación2020-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDeviant Behavior (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01639625.2018.1519136
OpenAlexW2893901654
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas38

This article considers the oft hidden instances of inter-criminal victimisation 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 literature on the subject from the USA (Contreras 2012; Jacobs 2000) ‘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 behaviour is a gainful, relatively low risk activity for a minority of established, professional violent criminals

Criminal behavior · Criminal behaviour · Criminology · Disadvantaged · Ethnography · Political science · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Psychology