The Cesare Lombroso handbook /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
Description:xi, 368 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8948321
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Other authors / contributors:Knepper, Paul.
Ystehede, Per.
ISBN:9780415509770 (hbk.)
0415509777 (hbk.)
9780203083369 (ebook)
0203083369 (ebook)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of 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 reception
  • 17. 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