Contributions

  • Gibson, Mary, 1950- - Contributor
  • Rafter, Nicole Hahn, 1939- - Contributor

Publication

2006 - Duke University Press, Durham, N.C, North Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

106,000 words, Guess

Page Count

424 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC364.3
  • LCCHV6038 .L5813 2006

Description

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--Cover.

Subjects

Topics

364.3MethodsCriminals2007 k-879CriminologyPhysiognomyHv6038 .l5813 2006

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