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Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman - Softcover

Lombroso, Cesare

 
9780822332466: Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0822332469 ISBN 13: 9780822332466
Verlag: Duke University Press, 2004

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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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909), an internationally famous physician and criminologist, wrote extensively about jurisprudence, psychiatry, human sexuality, and the causes of crime.

As a young law student, Guglielmo Ferrero (1871-1942) assisted Lombroso with research.

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"Cesare Lombroso created the field of criminology, but there has been a lack of available textbooks making his arguments accessible to today's students of history, law, and sociology. This volume fills that void. Offering work previously not translated along with a scholarly introduction and new visual evidence, it reveals Lombroso's argument without distorting the peculiar and genuinely contradictory character of his reasoning."--Peter Becker, European University Institute

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Verlag
Duke University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0822332469
ISBN 13 
9780822332466
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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