Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons : the Unconscious Meanings of Crime and Punishment.
An ex-convict struggles with his addictive yearning for prison. A law-abiding citizen broods over his pleasure in violent, illegal acts. A prison warden loses his job because he is so successful in rehabilitating criminals. These are but a few of the intriguing stories Martha Grace Duncan examines i...
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New York :
NYU Press,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE Cradled on the Sea: Positive Images of Prison and Theories of Punishment; CHAPTER 1 A Thousand Leagues Above: Prison As a Refuge from the Prosaic; CHAPTER 2 Cradled on the Sea: Prison As a Mother Who Provides and Protects; CHAPTER 3 To Die and Become: Prison As a Matrix of Spiritual Rebirth; CHAPTER 4 Flowers Are Flowers: Prison As a Place Like Any Other; CHAPTER 5 Methodological Issues; CHAPTER 6 Positive Images of Prison and Theories of Punishment; Epilogue to Part One.
- PART TWO A Strange Liking: Our Admiration for CriminalsPrologue to Part Two; CHAPTER 7 Reluctant Admiration: The Forms of Our Conflict over Criminals; CHAPTER 8 Rationalized Admiration: Overt Delight in Camouflaged Criminals; CHAPTER 9 Repressed Admiration: Loathing As a Vicissitude of Attraction to Criminals; Conclusion to Part Two: This Unforeseen Partnership; PART THREE In Slime and Darkness: The Metaphor of Filth in Criminal Justice; Prologue to Part Three; CHAPTER 10 Eject Him Tainted Now: The Criminal As Filth in Western Culture.
- CHAPTER 11 Projecting an Excrementitious Mass: The Metaphor of Filth in the History of Botany BayCHAPTER 12 Stirring the Odorous Pile: Vicissitudes of the Metaphor in Britain and the United States; Conclusion to Part Three: Metaphor Understood; Conclusion: The Romanticization of Criminals and the Defense against Despair; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.