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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909 (Author)
Other Authors: Rafter, Nicole Hahn, 1939- (Translator, writer of foreword.), Gibson, Mary, 1950- (Translator, writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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
Item Description:Translated from the Italian.
Physical Description:1 online resource (448 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822387800

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