| Description |
xi, 272 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Cradled on the Sea: Positive Images of Prison and Theories of Punishment. 1. A Thousand Leagues Above: Prison As a Refuge from the Prosaic. 2. Cradled on the Sea: Prison As a Mother Who Provides and Protects. 3. To Die and Become: Prison As a Matrix of Spiritual Rebirth. 4. Flowers Are Flowers: Prison As a Place Like Any Other. 5. Methodological Issues. 6. Positive Images of Prison and Theories of Punishment -- Pt. 2. A Strange Liking: Our Admiration for Criminals. 7. Reluctant Admiration: The Forms of Our Conflict over Criminals. 8. Rationalized Admiration: Overt Delight in Camouflaged Criminals. 9. Repressed Admiration: Loathing As a Vicissitude of Attraction to Criminals -- Conclusion to Part Two: This Unforeseen Partnership -- Pt. 3. In Slime and Darkness: The Metaphor of Filth in Criminal Justice. 10. Eject Him Tainted Now: The Criminal As Filth in Western Culture. 11. Projecting an Excrementitious Mass: The Metaphor of Filth in the History of Botany Bay |
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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 |
| Summary |
In developing her unique vision, Duncan draws on literature, history, psychoanalysis, and law. Her work reveals a non-utopian world in which criminals and non-criminals - while injuring each other in obvious ways - nonetheless live together in a symbiotic as well as an adversarial relationship, needing each other, serving each other, enriching each other's lives in profound and surprising fashion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262) and index |
| Subject |
Prison psychology.
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Criminal psychology.
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Prisons in literature.
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Criminals in literature.
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| LC no. |
96010124 |
| ISBN |
0814718809 alkaline paper |
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