I can recommend a book called Wiz Mob.[1] It's ostensibly a study of the specialized language of pickpockets, but actually goes in to great detail on how pickp

I can recommend a book called Wiz Mob.[1] It's ostensibly a study of the specialized language of pickpockets, but actually goes in to great detail on how pickpocket gangs work. Before reading this book, and knowing nothing about the subject matter, I had somehow assumed pickpockets worked alone and were just bottom-of-the-barrel amateur opportunists. I couldn't have been more wrong, as it turned out they work in highly organized units. Fortunately, probably through the ubiquity of video surveillance, such gangs don't seem to be as widespread as they used to be. [1] - https://www.amazon.com/Whiz-Mob-Correlation-Technical-Pickpockets/dp/0742533514 https://www.amazon.com/Whiz-Mob-Correlation-Technical-Pickpo...