TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1939//
TI  - Prostitutes and Criminal Argots
JO  - American journal of sociology
A1  - Maurer, David W.
SP  - 546
EP  - 550
VL  - 44
IS  - 4
N2  - Current linguistic field work among prostitutes indicates that they have developed relatively little of the professional argot so characteristic of other criminal professions. This situation is explained in terms of the underworld setup in which prostitutes work and in the light of certain social, economic, and psychological factors which normally enter into argot-formation.<p />
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SN  - 0002-9602
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/218067
ID  - ref1
ER  -