Cultural Issues: Crime Bribe
Description
Any payoff to law enforcement or other institution to circumvent the strictures of the law. In The Reivers Lucius Priest refers to this as "blackmail" (112). This is meant ironically. JB
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- And race
- Arson
- Blackmail
- Bootlegging
- Breaking and entering
- Car theft
- Cattle rustling
- Commercial sexual exploitation
- Drug addiction
- Embezzlement
- Extortion
- Forgery
- Fratricide
- Fraud
- Gambling
- Grave robbing
- Horse theft
- Innocence
- Interruption
- Kidnapping
- Looting
- Making whisky
- Manslaughter
- Moonshining
- Murder
- Numbers
- Penalty for
- Prevention
- Prostitution
- Racialized
- Rape
- Sedition
- Theft|Robbery
- Treason
- Vagrancy
- Vigilantism
- Voter fraud
- Waistcoat
Tagged Events
Actions: Economic›Banking | Economic›Indebtedness
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Olfactory›Food | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Hysteria | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Banishment | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Insulting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Gamecock | Animals›Horses | Animals›Race horse | Story-telling›Reminiscence
Aesthetics: Language›Profanity | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bribe | Identity, Cultural›America vs Europe | Labor›Prostitution
Relationships: Familial›Cousin | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor