Criminal Man - Softcover

Lombroso, Cesare

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822337231 ISBN 13: 9780822337232

Verlag: Duke University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Originally published in 1876, Criminal Man went through five editions during Lombroso's lifetime. In each edition Lombroso expanded on his ideas about innate criminality and refined his method for categorizing criminal behavior. In this new translation, Mary Gibson and Nicole Hahn Rafter bring together for the first time excerpts from all five editions in order to represent the development of Lombroso's thought and his positivistic approach to understanding criminal behavior.

In Criminal Man, Lombroso used modern Darwinian evolutionary theories to "prove" the inferiority of criminals to "honest" people, of women to men, and of blacks to whites, thereby reinforcing the prevailing politics of sexual and racial hierarchy. He was particularly interested in the physical attributes of criminals-the size of their skulls, the shape of their noses-but he also studied the criminals' various forms of self-expression, such as letters, graffiti, drawings, and tattoos. This volume includes more than forty of Lombroso's illustrations of the criminal body along with several photographs of his personal collection. Designed to be useful for scholars and to introduce students to Lombroso's thought, the volume also includes an extensive introduction, notes, appendices, a glossary, and an index.

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Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909), an internationally famous Italian physician and criminologist, wrote extensively about jurisprudence and the causes of crime. He produced more than thirty books during his lifetime.

Mary Gibson is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include Born to Crime: Cesare Lombroso and the Origins of Biological Criminality. Nicole Hahn Rafter is Senior Research Fellow at Northeastern University. Her books include Creating Born Criminals. Rafter and Gibson translated Lombroso's Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman, also published by Duke University Press.

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"Cesare Lombroso's "Criminal Man" has long been a classic of criminology. Mary Gibson and Nicole Hahn Rafter, in offering this finely annotated translation and showing the progression of Lombroso's thought through five editions of the book, have made a great contribution to a broader understanding of this towering, yet often misrepresented, figure and his classic text. With its lucid introduction by Gibson and Rafter, and many original illustrations, this book will be a precious resource for the history of criminology and for European intellectual and social history more generally."--David I. Kertzer, author of "Prisoner of the Vatican: The Popes' Secret Plot to Capture Rome from the New Italian State"

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Criminal Man

By Cesare Lombroso

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Copyright © 2006 Mary Gibson and Nicole Hahn Rafter
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-8223-3723-2

Contents

LIST OF TABLES...............................................................................xiiiLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS........................................................................xvACKNOWLEDGMENTS..............................................................................xviiEDITORS' INTRODUCTION........................................................................1EDITORS' FOREWORD............................................................................39AUTHOR'S PREFACE.............................................................................431 Criminal Craniums (Sixty-six Skulls).......................................................452 Anthropometry and Physiognomy of 832 Criminals.............................................503 Tattoos....................................................................................584 Emotions of Criminals......................................................................635 Criminals and Religion.....................................................................706 Intelligence and Education of Criminals....................................................727 Jargon.....................................................................................778 Criminal Literature........................................................................799 Insanity and Crime.........................................................................8110 Organized Crime...........................................................................8511 Atavism and Punishment....................................................................91EDITORS' FOREWORD............................................................................97AUTHOR'S PREFACE.............................................................................9912 Suicide among Criminals...................................................................10113 Criminals of Passion......................................................................10514 Recidivism, Morality, and Remorse.........................................................10815 Handwriting of Criminals..................................................................11116 Etiology of Crime: Weather and Race.......................................................11417 Etiology of Crime: Civilization, Alcohol, and Heredity....................................12018 Etiology of Crime: Age, Sex, Moral Education, Genitals, and Imitation.....................12719 Prevention of Crime.......................................................................13520 Penal Policy..............................................................................141APPENDIX 1 Giovanni Cavagli.................................................................149APPENDIX 2 A Medical Examination of Parricide and Insanity...................................154EDITORS' FOREWORD............................................................................161author's preface.............................................................................16321 Crime and Inferior Organisms..............................................................16722 Crime and Prostitution among Savages......................................................17523 Origins of Punishment.....................................................................18324 Moral Insanity and Crime among Children...................................................18825 Anomalies of the Brain and Internal Organs................................................19826 Photographs of Born Criminals.............................................................20227 Sensitivity and Blushing in Criminals.....................................................20628 Moral Insanity and Born Criminality.......................................................21229 Summary of Edition 3......................................................................221editors' foreword............................................................................227author's preface.............................................................................22930 Metabolism, Menstruation, and Fertility...................................................23731 Criminal Communication....................................................................23932 Art and Industry among Criminals..........................................................24433 The Epileptic Criminal....................................................................24734 Epileptics and Born Criminals.............................................................25335 Physiology and Etiology of Epilepsy.......................................................26036 The Insane Criminal.......................................................................26737 Biology and Psychology of Insane Criminals................................................27138 The Alcoholic Criminal....................................................................27739 The Hysterical Criminal...................................................................28140 The Mattoid...............................................................................28441 The Occasional Criminal...................................................................288EDITORS' FOREWORD............................................................................29942 Criminal Craniums (689 Skulls)............................................................30143 Anthropometry and Physiognomy of 6,608 Criminals..........................................30644 Political Criminals.......................................................................31345 Etiology of Crime: Urban Density, Alcoholism, Wealth, and Religion........................31646 Etiology of Crime: Heredity, Sex, and Politics............................................32547 Prevention of Crime.......................................................................33148 Synthesis and Penal Applications..........................................................338APPENDIX 1 Comparison of the Five Italian Editions...........................................357APPENDIX 2 Illustrations in the Five Italian Editions........................................364NOTES........................................................................................371GLOSSARY.....................................................................................401REFERENCES...................................................................................411INDEX........................................................................................417

Chapter One

Criminal Craniums (Sixty-six Skulls)

I thought it best to begin this study of criminal man with an anatomical table to facilitate a thorough examination of criminal craniums, amounting to a total of sixty-six skulls. Of these

-16 were provided by Calori, from his superb Anatomical Museum in Bologna;

-8 were provided by Mantegazza, from the Anthropological Museum of Florence;

-5 were provided by Zoja, from the Anatomical Museum of Pavia;

-6 came from the Anthropological Museum of the Academy of Medicine at Turin;

-18 came from Dr. Roggero's valuable private collection at the town prison of Alessandria;

-12 were collected by me and form part of my Anthropological-Psychiatric Museum;

-1 was donated by my esteemed friend, Dr. Golgi.

As shown in table 1, measurement of cranial circumference found very...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0822337231
• ISBN 13: 9780822337232
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 446
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