Criminal tattoo
Tattoos associated with criminal activity and gang membership / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Prison tattooing.
Criminal tattoos are a type of tattoos associated with criminals to show gang membership[1][2] and record the wearer's personal history—such as their skills, specialties, accomplishments, incarceration, world view and/or means of personal expression.[2] Tattoos have been empirically associated with deviance, personality disorders, and criminality.[3][4]
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Certain tattoo designs have developed recognized coded meanings.[5] The code systems can be quite complex, and because of the nature of what they encode, the designs of criminal tattoos are not widely recognized as such to outsiders.