Notes
† Terminology regarding criminal activity is taken primarily from D. W. Maurer, The Big Con (New York, Bobbs-Merrill, 1940), and also from E. Sutherland, The Professional Thief (Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1937). The approach that this paper attempts to utilize is taken from Everett C. Hughes of the University of Chicago, who is not responsible for any misapplications of it which may occur here. The sociological problem of failure was first suggested to me by James Littlejohn of the University of Edinburgh. I am grateful to Professor E. A. Shils for criticism and to my wife, Angelica S. Goffman, for assistance.
