Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of the field of
criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated
discussions of criminology in Europe and the Americas from the
1880s into the early twentieth century. His book, " La donna
delinquente," originally published in Italian in 1893, was the
first and most influential book ever written on women and crime.
This comprehensive new translation gives readers a full view of his
landmark work.
Lombroso's research took him to police stations, prisons, and
madhouses where he studied the tattoos, cranial capacities, and
sexual behavior of criminals and prostitutes to establish a female
criminal type." Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal
Woman" anticipated today's theories of genetic criminal behavior.
Lombroso used Darwinian evolutionary science to argue that criminal
women are far more cunning and dangerous than criminal men.
Designed to make his original text accessible to students and
scholars alike, this volume includes extensive notes, appendices, a
glossary, and more than thirty of Lombroso's own illustrations.
Nicole Hahn Rafter and Mary Gibson's introduction, locating his
theory in social context, offers a significant new interpretation
of Lombroso's place in criminology.
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