CHAPTER 8. Rationalized Admiration: Overt Delight in Camouflaged Criminals

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE. Cradled on the Sea: Positive Images of Prison and Theories of Punishment
6. CHAPTER 1. A Thousand Leagues Above: Prison As a Refuge from the Prosaic 9
7. CHAPTER 2. Cradled on the Sea: Prison As a Mother Who Provides and Protects 24
8. CHAPTER 3. To Die and Become: Prison As a Matrix of Spiritual Rebirth 32
9. CHAPTER 4. Flowers Are Flowers: Prison As a Place Like Any Other 38
10. CHAPTER 5. Methodological Issues 44
11. CHAPTER 6. Positive Images of Prison and Theories of Punishment 48
12. Epilogue to Part One 56
13. PART TWO. A Strange Liking: Our Admiration for Criminals
14. Prologue to Part Two 59
15. CHAPTER 7. Reluctant Admiration: The Forms of Our Conflict over Criminals 64
16. CHAPTER 8. Rationalized Admiration: Overt Delight in Camouflaged Criminals 70
17. CHAPTER 9. Repressed Admiration: Loathing As a Vicissitude of Attraction to Criminals 102
18. Conclusion to Part Two: This Unforeseen Partnership 116
19. PART THREE. In Slime and Darkness: The Metaphor of Filth in Criminal Justice
20. Prologue to Part Three 121
21. CHAPTER 10. Eject Him Tainted Now: The Criminal As Filth in Western Cultu 123
22. CHAPTER 11. Projecting an Excrementitious Mass: The Metaphor of Filth in the History of Botany Bay 147
23. CHAPTER 12. Stirring the Odorous Pile: Vicissitudes of the Metaphor in Britain and the United States 171
24. Conclusion to Part Three: Metaphor Understood 185
25. Conclusion: The Romanticization of Criminals and the Defense against Despair 188
26. Appendix 195
27. Notes 197
28. Bibliography 243
29. Index 263