The Boiler Room and Other Telephone Sales Scams - Hardcover

Stevenson, Robert J.

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9780252022654: The Boiler Room and Other Telephone Sales Scams

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ISBN 10: 0252022653 ISBN 13: 9780252022654

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1998

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Boiler Room and Other Telephone Sales Scams, The by Stevenson, Robert J.

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"[A] guide to the shifty, shady shadow land on the edge of American capitalism." - Chicago Reader "Stevenson offers an insider's view of the organization of fraud, the duality of marks--those doing the phoning and those on the other end of the receiver--and the staging, manipulation, and concealment devices used by those putting up the store. This is a fine contribution to the sociology of deviance, occupations, and fieldwork." - Robert R. Faulkner, author of The Social Organization of Conspiracy Review from Earlier Edition "Here is an uncommon work of independent scholarship... [It] has won academic praise for its rare investigation of disreputable phone sales shops... [Stevenson's] intense research has opened vistas into a fascinating netherworld of telephone pitchmen." - Gary Grass, Wisconsin Lawyer

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