69. The Crime of Punishment
Karl Menniger

1. Crime and Justice:

2. The system for controlling Crime:

2.1. Ineffective, unjust, expensive:

2.2. City jails:

3. Why is the public so long-suffering?

3.1. The public behaves: as a sick patient.

3.2. Freud¡¯s explanation: a kind of internal opposition:

4. To sum up:

4.1. Society secretly wants crime, needs crime, and gains definite satisfactions from the present mishandling of it.

4.2. Human nature: there is something fascinating for us all about violence

4.2.1 Crime and violence

4.2.2. News, TV, movies