With the infiltration of the helping professions into the courts, probation departments and correctional facilities, and with the increasing sophistication of criminologist and law enforcement officers, those concerned should be aware of the more common games prevalent in the underworld, both in prison and out of it.

1. Underworld
Games

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Research Scholar
School of Management Studies
CUSAT, Kerala, India.
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3. Underworld Games
• With the infiltration of
the helping professions
into the courts, probation
departments and
correctional facilities, and
with the increasing
sophistication of
criminologist and law
enforcement officers,
those concerned should
be aware of the more
common games prevalent
in the underworld, both
in prison and out of it.

4. Cops and Robbers
• Because many criminals
are cope haters, they
seem to get as much
satisfaction from
outwitting the police as
from their criminal gains
often more.
• The childhood prototype
of this game is hide and
seek.
• The thesis of the game is
“see if you can catch me”.

5. How Do You Get Out Of Here
• Inmates who really want
to free will find out how
to comply with the
authorities so as to be
released at the earliest
possible moment.
• But at the critical point,
they sabotage themselves
so as not be released.
• This is played in prisons
and state hospitals.

6. Lets Pull A Fast One On Joey
• The first move is for Black to
tell White that dumb honest
Joey is just waiting to be
taken.
• If White were completely
honest, he back off or warn
Joey but he does nothing.
• Just as Joey is about to pay
off, something goes wrong
and White finds that his
investment is gone.
• Then White, who was playing
his own rules in his own
honest way, finds that he has
to play Joey’s rules ,and they
hurt.

7. Thank You

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