ABSTRACT
This chapter will take the form of an ideal-typical account of the debtor's career up to and during imprisonment. It will focus on three main themes: why debtors do not pay before they enter Brixton; why they do not pay whilst they are in Brixton; and how they manage to preserve an acceptable image of themselves despite Brixton. My discussion must repeat some of the arguments I made in earlier chapters because it dwells on the relations between bailiff and debtor.
