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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part one: Cradled on the sea: positive images of prison and theories of punishment
- A thousand leagues above: prison as a refuge from the prosaic
- Cradled on the sea: prison as a mother who provides and protects
- To die and become: prison as a matrix of spiritual rebirth
- Flowers are flowers: prison as a place like any other
- Methodological issues
- Positive images of prison and theories of punishment
- Part two: A strange liking: our admiration for criminals
- Reluctant admiration: the forms of our conflict over criminals
- Rationalized admiration: overt delight in camouflaged criminals
- Repressed admiration: loathing as a vicissitude of attraction to criminals
- Part three: In slime and darkness: the metaphor of filth in criminal justice
- Eject him tainted now: the criminal as filth in Western culture
- Projecting an excrementitious mass: the metaphor of filth in the history of Botany Bay
- Stirring the odorous pile: vicissitudes of the metaphor in Britain and the United States
- Conclusion: The romanticization of criminals and the defense against despair.