It was Freud, borrowing Nietszche’s phrase from Thus Spake Zarathustra, who described as ‘pale criminals’ those who committed criminal acts out of deep-lying (unconscious) guilt. The focus of this challenging and penetrating study is on this type of criminality. It is Stephen J. Costello’s aim to bring a ‘unifying vision and theoretical integration’ to the array of perspectives and theories in this field.
