The Criminal Alphabet

The Criminal Alphabet
Author: Noel 'Razor' Smith
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2015-08-20
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0141946830

'I have spent almost 33 of the last 53 years in and out of prison, but mainly in. I was a juvenile offender back in the mid 1970s and went on to become an adult prisoner in the 1980s and beyond. My shortest prison sentence was 7 days (for criminal damage) and my longest sentence was life (for bank robbery and possession of firearms). I have 58 criminal convictions for everything from attempted theft to armed robbery and prison escape, and I was a career criminal for most of my life. What I do not know about criminal and prison slang could be written on the back of a postage stamp and still leave room for The Lord's Prayer ...' From ex-professional bank robber and bestselling author Noel Smith, this is the most authoritative dictionary of criminal slang out there - and an unmissable journey, through words, into the heart of the criminal world.

Criminal Slang

Criminal Slang
Author: Vincent Joseph Monteleone
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1584773006

A fascinating addition to any criminal law history library or collection, this book will likely be perused often. With a new introduction by Bryan A. Garner, President, LawProse, Inc. [1-2 new introduction], 292 pp. Originally published: Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1949. Monteleone was a police officer with thirty-two years of service throughout the United States. He compiled this collection of words and phrases used by the "gangster, tramp or hobo" over the course of a career that spanned the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Both instructive and amusing, it contains hundreds of entries relating to criminal matters of the time, such as "Academy" (a jail), "Across the River" (dead), "Grease the Track" (to fall under a moving train), "Looseners" (prunes), "Sprinkle the Flowers" (to distribute bribes), "Suey Bowel" (A Chinese opium den), "Write Short Stories" (to forge checks) and "Zib" (an easy victim). Also includes a table of hobo code symbols.

James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite Terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia with Additional True Stories, Remarkable Facts and Illustrations

James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite Terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia with Additional True Stories, Remarkable Facts and Illustrations
Author: Simon Barnard
Publisher: Text Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2019-08-20
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 192577466X

From the award-winning author and illustrator Simon Barnard comes an embellished version of Australia’s first ever dictionary, published on its 200-year anniversary

Cassell's Dictionary of Slang

Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 1600
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780304366361

With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results

Slang

Slang
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2016
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198729537

"In this Very Short Introduction Jonathon Green asks what words qualify as slang, and whether slang should be acknowledged as a language in its own right. Looking forward, he considers what the digital revolution means for the future of slang."--Cover flap.

Prison Slang

Prison Slang
Author: William K. Bentley
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1992
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

This comprehensive collection of prison jargon is rich and well worth study. A complete overview of prison life is available in these words.About 1,000 topically arranged words and expressions deal with institutional life in general, the criminal justice system, gangs, violence, drugs, sex, types and characteristics of inmates, the underground economy, social mores, slang, women, and ethnic slurs. While some of these words are almost humorous in nature, others are blunt in depicting a way of life rarely seen.

Token: A Journal of English Linguistics (Volume 4)

Token: A Journal of English Linguistics (Volume 4)
Author: John G. Newman
Publisher: Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2015-12-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Token focuses on English linguistics in a broad sense, taking in both diachronic and synchronic work, grammatical as well as lexical studies. That being said, the journal favors empirical research. All submissions are double-blind peer reviewed. Token is the original medium of publication for all articles that the journal prints.

Prison-ese

Prison-ese
Author: Gary K. Farlow
Publisher: Loompanics Unltd
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781559502283

All of the terms and phrases in this "dictionary" where collected by the author over a period of ten years while incarcerated in the North Carolina Department of Corrections, Division of Prisons.

Gang Slang

Gang Slang
Author: James Morton
Publisher: Virgin Books Limited
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2002
Genre: Cant
ISBN: 9780753506998

Are you a nob, on a one-way ride? Perhaps you're a mechanic, or a standover man? Do you have brown kotchel or do you go mumping? If you don't know what this means then this complete guide to criminal slang as spoken in the UK, USA, and Australia should help.