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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 firs...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Rafter, Nicole Hahn, 1939- (Traductor, writer of foreword.), Gibson, Mary, 1950- (Traductor, writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Criminele antropologie.
Criminals.
Criminal anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
physiognomy.
physical anthropology.
criminals.
Physiognomonie.
Anthropologie physique.
Anthropologie criminelle.
Criminels.
Physiognomy
Anthropology, Physical
Criminology > methods
Physiognomy.
Physical anthropology.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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
Notas:Translated from the Italian.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (448 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822387800

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