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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909 (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Rafter, Nicole Hahn, 1939- (Traducteur, writer of foreword.), Gibson, Mary, 1950- (Traducteur, writer of foreword.)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Italiano
Publié: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2006.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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
Description:Translated from the Italian.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (448 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822387800

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