Alessandro MorettiThe Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting
An Ethnography of Deviant Entrepreneurship
Alessandro Moretti is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Global Criminology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
1 "A broadband connection and some guile and off you go": Introduction 2
The deviant entrepreneur, exploring economic opportunities in the "zones of
ambiguity": Literature review 3 "You will receive your money as promised.
Don't even begin to think it's okay to threaten me": Methodology 4 "It's
who you know, not what you know": How touts buy and sell tickets 5 A
categorisation of touts: The scale of deviousness 6 "I was arrested,
banned, and received a fine of £1,000 - the best thing that ever happened
to me": The art of street touting 7 A case study of an online tout: The
"glory days" and the future 8 "Why is it legal when Ticketmaster does it?":
Non-deviant identity formulation through techniques of neutralisation 9
When a ticket is available on Viagogo the "damage" has already been done:
Conclusion
