Criminal Man

by Lombroso, Cesare; Gibson, Mary; Rafter, Nicole Hahn

• ISBN13: 9780822337119
• ISBN10: 0822337118
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-30
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

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 behaviour during the late nineteenth century and 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 all 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 behaviour. 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 behaviour. 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 re-enforcing 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 self-expression, such as letters, graffiti, drawings, and tattoos. This volume includes more than 40 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.

Table of Contents

LIST OF TABLES	xiii
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS	XV
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	XVII
EDITORS' INTRODUCTION	1	(38)
EDITION 1 (1876)
EDITORS' FOREWORD	39	(4)
AUTHOR'S PREFACE	43	(42)
1 Criminal Craniums (Sixty-six Skulls)	45	(5)
2 Anthropometry and Physiognomy of 832 Criminals	50	(8)
3 Tattoos	58	(5)
4 Emotions of Criminals	63	(7)
5 Criminals and Religion	70	(2)
6 Intelligence and Education of Criminals	72	(5)
7 Jargon	77	(2)
8 Criminal Literature	79	(2)
9 Insanity and Crime	81	(4)
10 Organized Crime	85	(6)
11 Atavism and Punishment	91	(6)
EDITION 2 (1878)
EDITORS' FOREWORD	97	(2)
AUTHOR'S PREFACE	99	(2)
12 Suicide among Criminals	101	(4)
13 Criminals of Passion	105	(3)
14 Recidivism, Morality, and Remorse	108	(3)
15 Handwriting of Criminals	111	(3)
16 Etiology of Crime: Weather and Race	114	(6)
17 Etiology of Crime: Civilization, Alcohol, and Heredity	120	(7)
18 Etiology of Crime: Age, Sex, Moral Education, Genitals, and Imitation	127	(8)
19 Prevention of Crime	135	(6)
20 Penal Policy	141	(8)
APPENDIX 1 Giovanni Cavaglia	149	(5)
APPENDIX 2 A Medical Examination of Parricide and Insanity	154	(7)
EDITION 3 (1884)
EDITORS' FOREWORD	161	(2)
AUTHOR'S PREFACE	163	(4)
21 Crime and Inferior Organisms	167	(8)
22 Crime and Prostitution among Savages	175	(8)
23 Origins of Punishment	183	(5)
24 Moral Insanity and Crime among Children	188	(10)
25 Anomalies of the Brain and Internal Organs	198	(4)
26 Photographs of Born Criminals	202	(4)
27 Sensitivity and Blushing in Criminals	206	(6)
28 Moral Insanity and Born Criminality	212	(9)
29 Summary of Edition 3	221	(6)
EDITION 4 (1889)
EDITORS' FOREWORD	227	(2)
AUTHOR'S PREFACE	229	(8)
30 Metabolism, Menstruation, and Fertility	237	(2)
31 Criminal Communication	239	(5)
32 Art and Industry among Criminals	244	(3)
33 The Epileptic Criminal	247	(6)
34 Epileptics and Born Criminals	253	(7)
35 Physiology and Etiology of Epilepsy	260	(7)
36 The Insane Criminal	267	(4)
37 Biology and Psychology of Insane Criminals	271	(6)
38 The Alcoholic Criminal	277	(4)
39 The Hysterical Criminal	281	(3)
40 The Mattoid	284	(4)
41 The Occasional Criminal	288	(11)
EDITION 5 (1896-97) EDITORS' FOREWORD	299	(72)
42 Criminal Craniums (689 Skulls)	301	(5)
43 Anthropometry and Physiognomy of 6,608 Criminals	306	(7)
44 Political Criminals	313	(3)
45 Etiology of Crime: Urban Density, Alcoholism, Wealth, and Religion	316	(9)
46 Etiology of Crime: Heredity, Sex, and Politics	325	(6)
47 Prevention of Crime	331	(7)
48 Synthesis and Penal Applications	338	(19)
APPENDIX 1 Comparison of the Five Italian Editions	357	(7)
APPENDIX 2 Illustrations in the Five Italian Editions	364	(7)
NOTES	371	(30)
GLOSSARY	401	(10)
REFERENCES	411	(6)
INDEX	417