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Preface; Part I. Turning Criminals to Account: Three Case Histories andTwo Myths of Crime: 1. The highwayman: power, grace, and money at command; 2.Familiar murder: sin, death, damnation, repentance, God's grace, andsalvation; Part II. Enucleating the Truth: The Criminal as Sinner TurnedSaint: 3. In the absence of adequate causes: efforts at an etiology of crime;4. Heaven seized by sincerity and zeal: justifying God, vindicating man; 5.Love makes all things easy: recementing the social bond; Part III. PalliatingHis Crimes: The Thief as Various Rogues: 6. Smiles, serious thoughts, andthings beyond imagining: a provisional typology of thieves in action; 7.Barbarous levities: fear, guilt, and the value of confusion; 8. Everyone leftto his own reflections: the oddity of the highwayman as hero and socialcritic; Postscript; Appendices; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.