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

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.92
• Soggetto topico: Criminologists - Italy; Criminology; Criminal anthropology
• Altri autori: KnepperPaul YstehedePer
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: <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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Cesare Lombroso handbook
• ISBN: 1-136-18470-8; 1-136-18471-6; 0-203-08336-9; 1-283-91972-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779318103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II