Criminal Man
Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. This volume offers English-language readers the first critical, scholarly translation of Lombroso's Criminal man, one of the most famous criminological treatises ever written. The text laid the groundwork for subsequent biological theories of crime, including c…
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- Full title :Criminal Man / Cesare Lombroso ; translated and with a new introduction by Mary Gibson and Nicole Hahn Rafter, with translation assistance from Mark Seymour.
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Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. This volume offers English-language readers the first critical, scholarly translation of Lombroso's Criminal man, one of the most famous criminological treatises ever written. The text laid the groundwork for subsequent biological theories of crime, including contemporary genetic explanations--Cover.
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- Publication Date:2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Duke University Press
- Place of Publication:Durham, NC
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006.
Notes
Translated from the Italian.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xviii, 424 p. :) : ill.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780822387800, 0822387808
- oclc:on1143624894
- LC Classification:HV6038
- Dewey Decimal:364.3
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Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. This volume offers English-language readers the first critical, scholarly translation of Lombroso's Criminal man, one of the most famous criminological treatises ever written. The text laid the groundwork for subsequent biological theories of crime, including contemporary genetic explanations -- Cover.
Criminal craniums (sixty-six skulls) -- Anthropometry and physiognomy of 832 criminals -- Tattoos -- Emotions of criminals -- Criminals and religion -- Intelligence and education of criminals -- Jargon -- Criminal literature -- Insanity and crime -- Organized crime -- Atavism and punishment -- Suicide among criminals -- Criminals of passion -- Recidivism, morality, and remorse -- Handwriting of criminals -- Etiology of crime : weather and race -- Etiology of crime : civilization, alcohol, and heredity -- Etiology of crime : age, sex, moral education, genitals, and imitation -- Prevention of crime -- Penal policy -- Crime and inferior organisms -- C…
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