Criminal man / Cesare Lombroso ; translated and with a new introduction by Mary Gibson and Nicole Hahn Rafter, with translation assistance from Mark Seymour.
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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| Other title: | Uomo delinquente. English. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Italian |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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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. |
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| Item Description: | Translated from the Italian. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 424 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-416) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822387800 0822387808 |
| Language: | Translated from Italian. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |