Tramping with Tramps

Criminals have had their skulls measured, their prison-wall scribbles catalogued, even their pulses tested with delicate instruments. But what does a criminal look like in the open?

Writing in the late nineteenth century, Josiah Flynt takes his inquiry from the prison cell to the roads and city streets of England and the United States. After years living among tramps, he argues that confinement has given criminologists a distorted portrait—and that the men and women who pursue crime in freedom may be driven by ambition, not simply desperation. Flynt invites readers to question the familiar image of the criminal as a helpless product of poverty, while tracing the hard choices and desires that shape life on the margins. What will the open road reveal that prison bars have concealed?

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