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Titolo: |
The Cesare Lombroso handbook / / edited by Paul Knepper and P.J. Ystehede
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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
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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.: | 9910817007303321 |
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