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Criminal Man

Gina Lombroso

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. . .At fourteen, he seduced a servant and ran away, and at twenty he killed his fiancée by throwing her out of a window. Thanks to the testimony of a great many doctors, Rizz... was declared to be morally insane, but if the family had been poor instead of well-to-do, and the mother had neglected to have her child examined in infancy by a medical man, thus obtaining ample proof of the pathological nature of his perversity, Rizz... would have been condemned as an ordinary criminal, because, like all morally insane persons, he [Pg 55]was very intelligent and able to reason clearly, like a normal individual.

Another typical case is that of a child named Rav... (see Fig. 12) a native of the Romagna, who was brought to my father at the age of eight, because his parents were convinced that his conduct was due to a morbid condition. Unlike the above-mentioned case, his evil acts were always carried out in an underhand way. He showed great spite towards his brothers an. . . Read More

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Lomroso's ideas are the evolution of Imam Chafii's physiognomy theory... Cesare's ideas are useful to understand lots of stuff. Nevertheless, "women're inferior to men and blacks to whites" is nothing but a "legal and scientifically proven" invitation to sexism, hatred and racism...more

One for the sociologist, historian and criminologist. Well written factual.

An enjoyable read. Of course his arguments went way beyond the data he had, but you gotta have a theory to collect data anyways, right?

Un ouvrage intéressant : L'Homme criminel, c'est assister à la naissance d'une science bancale vouée à l'échec. Expliquer le vice par l'apparence physique est délicat et Lombroso lui-même présente timidement ses observations. Cet ouvrage a au moins le mérite d'être une vraie plongée dans la fin du X

Cesare Lombroso's Criminal Man (1876-1897) paved the way for biocriminology, evolutionary psychology, American literary naturalism, and noir fiction. In this edition, editors/translators Mary Gibson and Nicole Hahn Rafter include portions of all five of Lombroso's original editions of the book, ther

Μπορεί να μοιάζει παλιομοδίτικο. Μπορεί ιδέες και συμπεράσματα με τα χρόνια να ανατράπηκαν. Είναι όμως ένα σπουδαίο βιβλίο και για την ιστορία αξίζει πενταράκι. Ήθη, έθιμα, φυλές, συμπεριφορές αποδεκτές και αποκκλίνουσες, υπόκοσμος, εξαρτήσεις, ανθρώπινη ανατομία, βιαιότητα στο ζωικό βασίλειο....αν

read it in school library, quite interesting, but this book is about science, and terminology. finish with half of the book, and find it extremely hard to understand.

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