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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909 (Author)
Other Authors: Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942, Rafter, Nicole Hahn, 1939-, Gibson, Mary, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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