The Cesare Lombroso handbook / edited by Paul Knepper and P.J. Ystehede.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knepper, Paul.

Ystehede, Per.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909.

Lombroso, Cesare.

Criminologists--Italy.

Criminologists.

Criminology.

Criminal anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P>The Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso (1835 - 1909) is the single-most important figure in the founding of criminology and the study of aberrant conduct in the human sciences.</P><P><I>The Cesare Lombroso Handbook</I> brings together essays by leading Lombroso scholars and is divided into four main parts, each focusing on a major theme. Part one examines the range and scope of Lombroso's thinking; the mimetic quality of Lombroso; his texts and their interpretation. The second part explores why his ideas, such as born criminology and atavistic criminals, had such broad appeal. Developing

Contents:

THE CESARE LOMBROSO HANDBOOK ; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Lombroso and his school: from anthropology to medicine and law; 2 Cesare Lombroso, prison science, and penal policy; 3 Gli Anarchici and Lombroso's theory of political crime; 4 Demonizing being: Lombroso and the ghosts of criminology; 5 The Lombroso Museum from its origins to the present day; 6 Caesar or Cesare? American and Italian images of Lombroso; 7 New natural born killers? The legacy of Lombroso in neuroscience and law

8 From subhumans to superhumans: Criminals in the evolutionary hierarchy, or what became of Lombroso's atavistic criminals?9 Lombroso and Jewish social science; 10 The melodramatic publication career of Lombroso's La donna delinquente; 11 Lombroso's Criminal Woman and the uneven development of the modern lesbian identity; 12 In search of the Lombrosian type of delinquent; 13 Lombroso and the science of literature and opera; 14 A hidden theme of Jewish self-love? Eric Hobsbawm, Karl Marx, and Cesare Lombroso on "Jewish criminality"; 15 The methods of Lombroso and cultural criminology

16 Lombroso in France: a paradoxical reception17 Lombroso in China: Dong Xue Wei Ti, Xi Xue Wei Yong?; 18 Lombroso but not Lombrosians? Criminal anthropology in Spain; 19 The influence of Cesare Lombroso on Philippine criminology; 20 Lombroso and the 'men of real science': British reactions, 1886-1918; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-18470-8

1-136-18471-6

0-203-08336-9

1-283-91972-9

9780203083369

OCLC:

823389987