Editing Pickpocketing (section)

==As an occupation==
[[File:Pickpocket caught by camera 1972-07.png|thumb|Pickpocketing gang at [[Dongincheon station]] in [[Incheon|Incheon, South Korea]] (1972)]]
Pickpockets and other thieves, especially those working in teams, sometimes apply [[distraction]], such as asking a question or bumping into the victim. These distractions sometimes require sleight of hand, speed, misdirection and other types of skills.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Heap |first=Simon |title='Jaguda boys': pickpocketing in Ibadan, 1930–60 |journal=Urban History |volume=24 |issue=3 |date=December 1997 |pages=324–343 |doi=10.1017/S0963926800012384 |jstor=44614007|s2cid=145130577 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Heap |first=Simon |title='Their Days are Spent in Gambling and Loafing, Pimping for Prostitutes, and Picking Pockets': Male Juvenile Delinquents on Lagos Island, 1920s–1960s |journal=Journal of Family History |volume=35 |issue=1 |date=January 2010 |pages=48–70 |doi=10.1177/0363199009348306|pmid=20099405 |s2cid=24010849 }}</ref>

Pickpockets may be found in any crowded place around the world. However, [[Barcelona]] and [[Rome]] have been noted as being particularly dangerous pickpocket havens.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://journals.worldnomads.com/safetyhub/story/69750/Italy/Italy-1-for-Pickpockets |title=Italy - #1 for Pickpockets|website= WorldNomads.com |date=11 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110314192005/http://journals.worldnomads.com/safetyhub/story/69750/Italy/Italy-1-for-Pickpockets|archive-date=2011-03-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/tripadvisor/37974/ |title=TripAdvisor Points Out Top 10 Places Worldwide to Beware Pickpockets|publisher=TripAdvisor|via=PR Newswire|date= 10 September 2009|access-date=2019-09-18}}</ref> Thieves have been known to operate in high traffic areas such as mass transit stations, even boarding subway trains so they can use the distractions of crowds and sudden stop-and-go movements from the train to steal from others. As soon as the thieves have what they want, they simply get off at the next stop leaving the victim unable to figure out who robbed them and when.