Ambivalence toward criminals marked the popular attitude to illegality
Evidence
Thus there grew up around crimes a network of glorification and blame; effective help and fear alternated with regard to this shifting population, which one knew was very near, but from which one felt that crime could emerge. Popular illegality enveloped a whole nucleus of criminality that was both its extreme form and its internal danger. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 139
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Enclosing delinquency in a supervised group neutralizes broader popular illegality — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 428; Romanticizing crime affirmed greatness rather than praised criminality — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 124; New crime literature dispossessed common people of their criminal glory — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 124 (+4 more)
Related
- New crime literature dispossessed common people of their criminal glory (similarity 0.86)
- Romanticizing crime affirmed greatness rather than praised criminality (similarity 0.84)
- Enclosing delinquency in a supervised group neutralizes broader popular illegality (similarity 0.84)
- Popular illegality formed a continuum running from tolerated evasion to outright crime (similarity 0.83)
- Tolerated illegality was a structural condition of Ancien RĂ©gime society (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- Eighteenth-century popular illegality shifted from attacking rights to attacking property
#expands(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 141 - Mass media act as primary definers shaping public crime attitudes
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