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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Cesare Lombroso; David M Horton; Katherine E Rich |
| ISBN: | 0773463429 9780773463424 |
| OCLC Number: | 56414005 |
| Description: | xv, 501 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface / Nicole Rafter -- Ch. I. Illustrative studies in criminal anthropology : I. 'La Bete Humaine' and criminal anthropology; II. criminal anthropology and psychiatry -- Ch. II. Illustrative studies in criminal anthropology : III. the physiognomy of the anarchists -- Ch. III. A study of mobs -- Ch. IV. The physical insensibility of woman -- Ch. V. Characteristics of recent prominent criminals -- Ch. VI. Treatment of prisoners -- Ch. VII. Atavism and evolution -- Ch. VIII. Criminal anthropology : its origin and application -- Ch. IX. Criminal anthropology applied to pedagogy -- Ch. X. The savage origin of tattooing -- Ch. XI. Criminal anthropology -- Ch. XII. The heredity of acquired characteristics -- Ch. XIII. Why homicide has increased in the United States -- Ch. XIV. Games among criminals and savages -- Ch. XV. Anarchistic crimes and their causes -- Ch. XVI. Regressive phenomena in evolution -- Ch. XVII. Insane characters in fiction and the drama -- Ch. XVIII. A study of Luigi Luccheni (assassin of the empress of Austria) -- Ch. XIX. The bicycle and crime -- Ch. XX. A paradoxical anarchist -- Ch. XXI. Some aspects of crime -- Ch. XXII. The status of anarchism to-day in Europe and the United States -- Ch. XXIII. Precocity in crime -- Ch. XXIV. Why criminals of genius have no type -- Ch. XXV. Left-handedness and left-sidedness -- Ch. XXVI. Crime in Spain and its history -- Ch. XXVII. The criminal -- Ch. XXVIII. Crime and insanity in the twenty-first century -- App. A. Bibliographies of books and periodical literature pertaining to Cesare Lombroso -- App. B. Bibliographies of books and periodical literature pertaining to criminal anthropology. |
| Series Title: | Criminology studies, v. 22. |
| Other Titles: | Selections. |
| Responsibility: | edited by David M. Horton and Katherine E. Rich. |
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"Cesare Lombroso, the Italian psychiatrist and criminal anthropologist, is almost universally recognized as the founder of scientific criminology... For the first time, under one cover, this Lombroso omnibus gives us access to the complete range of literature by and about Lombroso and the development of criminal anthropology - and to fascinating ephemera as well. This material is extremely valuable partly for what it shows about the types of sources from which turn-of-the-century readers in English-speaking countries first learned about Lombroso, and partly because many of his articles published in the English language periodical press have been hitherto unknown to researchers. Moreover, these valuable contributions in the periodical literature demonstrate that late nineteenth and early-twentieth-century general readers had a keen interest in Lombroso's work. This work, in sum, is extraordinarily useful not only for what it tells us about criminal anthropology, but also for what it reveals about the dissemination of Lombroso's ideas... This book makes an exceedingly important contribution to our knowledge of a major figure, and of developments in criminology connected with that figure, whose full significance is only beginning to be realized. This omnibus is unquestionably a classic piece of research not only in the historical development of Lombrosian positivistic criminology, but in archival bibliography as well." - (From the Commendatory Preface) Nicole Rafter, Ph.D., Oxford University" Read more...
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