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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