ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with where fiddles are to be found. In some occupations, particularly among wolves and vultures, positive pressures exist, as Jason Ditton has described in his study of bread salesmen, that not only encourage but which actually coerce workers to fiddle. Passing trade exists where two sides to a transaction typically meet only once. Because a high degree of transience precludes the possibility of a build-up of goodwill, we find that this increases the likelihood of fiddles. This can be illustrated by the relationship between an established village resident and the village shopkeeper where transience is low and the possibility of goodwill high. A widespread fiddle factor is found where real or suggested expertise is involved in a transaction and where at the same time it may be assumed that the customer is ignorant about what it is he is paying for.
