Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Tracing the History of the Criminal-Animal Metaphor -- Part I: Creating 'Criminal Beasts' in Early Modern Literature and Law -- 2 Catching Conies with Thomas Harman, Robert Greene, and Thomas Dekker -- 3 Richard III's Animalistic Criminal Body -- 4 Of a Howling Murderer - The Duke of Malfi -- 5 Ben Jonson's Comedies of Gulling Rogues -- Part II: Humanizing Animals and 'Animalizing' the Lower Orders during the Long Eighteenth Century -- Introduction to Part II: Eighteenth-Century Changes in the Criminal-Animal Trope -- 6 Colonialism and the 'Criminal Beast' in Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels -- 7 William Hogarth's The Four Stages of Cruelty - Sympathizing with Animals and Denigrating the Lower Orders as Beasts -- 8 The Prisoner as Suffering Animal - Caleb Williams's Revision of the Criminal-Animal Metaphor -- Part III: Reinstating the 'Criminal Beast' during the Nineteenth Century -- Introduction to Part III: The Nineteenth Century's Delineation of the Criminal Class -- 9 Charles Dickens's Contradictions -- 10 The Criminal-Animal Metaphor and Lombrosian Criminology -- 11 Coda -- Bibliography -- Index.