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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- PART 1. Costly Signals -- 1. Criminal Credentials -- 2. The Power of Limits -- 3. Information as Hostage -- 4. Why Prisoners Fight (and Signal) -- 5. Self-harm as a Signal -- PART 2. Conventional Signals -- 6. Conventional and Iconic Signals -- 7. Protecting Easy-to-Fake Signals -- 8. Criminal Trademarks -- 9. Nicknames -- 10. Why (Low) Life Imitates Art -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

How do criminals communicate with each other? Unlike the rest of us, people planning crimes can't freely advertise their goods and services, nor can they rely on formal institutions to settle disputes and certify quality. They face uniquely intense dilemmas as they grapple with the basic problems of whom to trust, how to make themselves trusted, and how to handle information without being detected by rivals or police. In this book, one of the world's leading scholars of the mafia ranges from ancient Rome to the gangs of modern Japan, from the prisons of Western countries to terrorist and pedop

Based on a wealth of original information and research, and containing contributions from internationally distinguished scholars, 'Making Sense of Suicide Missions' furthers our understanding of this chilling feature of the contemporary world in radically new and unexpected ways

Im vorliegenden Aufsatz werden zentrale Fragestellungen des Phänomens des Vertrauens untersucht. Im ersten Abschnitt wird zunächst die allgemeine Behauptung relativiert, dass ein gewisser Grad an rationaler Kooperation in den zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen existieren sollte, wodurch die Unterscheidung zwischen Kooperation und Vertrauen verschwommen wird. Außerdem wird die Wichtigkeit von Überzeugungen, die sich auf andere beziehen und die zur Bedeutung der möglichen Kooperationsmotive beitragen, herausgestellt. Im zweiten Abschnitt definiert der Autor das Vertrauen und die allgemeinen Bedingungen, unter denen es für die Kooperation relevant wird. Im dritten Abschnitt wird schließlich diskutiert, in welchem Ausmaß Kooperation unabhängig von Vertrauen zustande kommen kann und inwieweit Vertrauen eher ein Ergebnis als eine Bedingung von Kooperation ist. Der Autor geht abschließend der Frage nach, ob es rationale Gründe gibt, zu vertrauen - oder genauer, ob es Gründe gibt, dem Vertrauen zu vertrauen, und - umgekehrt - dem Misstrauen zu misstrauen. (ICI2)

In this paper we present the design of a two-stage experiment which aims to measure trusting and trustworthiness in a representative sample of the British population. In the first part we discuss the shortcomings of the most common design of the 'trust-game' experiment in eliciting information about clear and cogent notions of trusting and trustworthiness, and in the second part we present an alternative design, which we call the 'framed binary trust game'. The basic design will be administered to a sample of 200 subjects who were formerly members of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). In the third part of the paper, we extend this design to allow the 'truster' to purchase some information about the 'trustee' so as to make the experiment a better representation of real-life trust decisions. We plan in a second stage to run the extended experiment on a larger sample of about 1000 subjects. -- trust ; trust game ; field experiments

"Driving a taxi is a difficult job. Picking up a bad customer can leave the driver in a vulnerable position, and erring even once can prove fatal. To protect themselves, taxi drivers must quickly and accurately assess the trustworthiness of complete strangers. In Streetwise, Diego Gambetta and Heather Hamill take this predicament as a prototypical example of many trust decisions, where people must act on limited information and judge another person's trustworthiness based on signs that may or may not be honest indicators of that person's character or intent. Gambetta and Hamill analyze the behavior of cabbies in two cities where driving a taxi is especially perilous: New York City, where drivers have been the targets of frequent and violent robberies, and Belfast, Northern Ireland, a divided metropolis where drivers have been swept up in the region's sectarian violence." "Based on in-depth ethnographic research, Streetwise lets drivers describe in their own words how they seek to determine the threat posed by each potential passenger."--Jacket