Cesare Lombroso

Written while Lombroso was professor of forensic medicine at the University of Turin, L'Uomo delinquente (Criminal Man) set out to conduct an anthropological study of its subject. The premise was that the criminal is born and could be identified from congenital traits. By learning to recognise them, and by developing a detailed system of classification, the aim was better to understand the criminal so as to optimise prevention, reform, or containment. The author leaves no stone unturned, examining every type and level of criminal, recording every measurable characteristic, be it physical, physiological, or psychological. Although subsequently subject to criticism, and now long deprecated, the work was enormously influential in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as both a pioneering and sincere effort to understand the origins and sources of crime. The work went through five Italian editions, in which Lombroso continued to expand and refine his theory. However, because of its length, it was difficult to get the book translated, so no English edition existed until after the author's death. First published in 1911, the present text is a summary prepared for the Anglo-American market by his daughter, Gina, while her father still lived, and it is in this form that it became known in the English speaking world. Its influence would be felt throughout Europe and America, and would transcend criminology to find references in literature. The likes of mile Zola, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad, and Bram Stoker, the later in his descriptions of the vampire in Dracula, drew from Lombroso's work on criminal man.

First published in 1895, "Female Offender" is a work by Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso that focuses on women who commit crime, looking at what he supposed were the psychical and psychological characteristics that determined their criminality. Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) was an Italian phrenologist, criminologist, and physician who founded the Italian School of Positivist Criminology. Rejecting the classical school of thought, he maintained that criminality was inherited and that criminals could be identified by physical characteristics. Other notable works by this author include: "Crime: Its Causes and Remedies" (1899), "After Death - What?" (1909), and "Criminal Man, According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso" (1911). Contents include: "The Skull of the Female Offender", " Pathological Anomalies of the Female Offender", "The Brains of Female Offenders", "The Brains of Female Criminals", "Anthropometry of Female Criminals", "Facial and Cephalic Anomalies of Female Criminals", "Further Anomalies", "Photographs of Female Criminals and Prostitutes", "The Criminal Type in Women and its Atavistic Origin", etc. Read & Co. Science is republishing this classic work now in a brand new edition complete with introductory essay 'Criminal Woman' by Miss Helen Zimmern.

Reproduction of the original: The Man of Genius by Cesare Lombroso

Reproduction of the original: The Man of Genius by Cesare Lombroso

Genij i bezumie... Neuzheli mezhdu nimi dejstvitelno est mnogo obschego? Neuzheli genialnost - prosto odna iz mnogochislennykh form umopomeshatelstva? Velichajshij kriminalnyj psikhiatr XIX veka Chezare Lombrozo, kotorogo samogo posledovatelno objavljali geniem, sumasshedshim i snova geniem, predlagaet v samoj izvestnoj iz svoikh rabot porazitelnuju teoriju o tom, chto genialnost prosto nesovmestima s normalnostju, - prichem s normalnostju ne v bytovom, a v chisto klinicheskom smysle slova. Tak v chem zhe, po mneniju Lombrozo, zakljuchaetsja "bezumstvo geniev"?