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Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Gibson, Mary, 1950-, Rafter, Nicole Hahn, 1939-, Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The female in the animal world
  • Anatomy and biology of woman
  • Senses and psyche of woman
  • Cruelty, compassion, and maternity
  • Love
  • The moral sense
  • Intelligence
  • Crime in the animal world
  • Crimes of savage and primitive women
  • The history of prostitution
  • The skull of the female offender
  • Pathological anomalies
  • The brains of female criminals and prostitutes
  • Anthropometry of female criminals
  • Facial and cephalic anomalies of female criminals and prostitutes
  • Other anomalies
  • Photographs of criminals and prostitutes
  • The criminal type in women and its atavistic origin
  • Tattoos
  • Menstruation, fecundity, vitality, strength, and reflexes
  • Acuteness of sense and vision
  • Sexual sensitivity (lesbianism and sexual psychopathy)
  • The female born criminal
  • Occasional criminals
  • Crimes of passion
  • Suicides
  • The born prostitute
  • The occasional prostitute
  • Insane criminals
  • Epileptic criminals and the morally insane
  • Hysterical criminals