Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal WomanCesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of the field of criminology. His theory of the “born” criminal dominated discussions of criminology in Europe and the Americas from the 1880s into the early twentieth century. His book, La donna delinquente, originally published in Italian in 1893, was the first and most influential book ever written on women and crime. This comprehensive new translation gives readers a full view of his landmark work. Lombroso’s research took him to police stations, prisons, and madhouses where he studied the tattoos, cranial capacities, and sexual behavior of criminals and prostitutes to establish a female criminal type. Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman anticipated today’s theories of genetic criminal behavior. Lombroso used Darwinian evolutionary science to argue that criminal women are far more cunning and dangerous than criminal men. Designed to make his original text accessible to students and scholars alike, this volume includes extensive notes, appendices, a glossary, and more than thirty of Lombroso’s own illustrations. Nicole Hahn Rafter and Mary Gibson’s introduction, locating his theory in social context, offers a significant new interpretation of Lombroso’s place in criminology. |
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Table des matières
Menstruation Fecundity Vitality Strength and Reflexes | 159 |
Acuteness of Sense and Vision | 165 |
Sexual Sensitivity Lesbianism and Sexual Psychopathy | 171 |
The Female Born Criminal | 182 |
Occasional Criminals | 193 |
Crimes of Passion | 201 |
Suicides | 209 |
The Born Prostitute | 213 |
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The Criminal Type in Women and Its Atavistic Origins | 144 |
Tattoos | 151 |
The Occasional Prostitute | 222 |
Insane Criminals | 227 |
Epileptic Criminals and the Morally Insane | 231 |
Hysterical Criminals | 234 |
Comparing Three Editions of La donna delinquente | 241 |
Illustrations in the Earlier Editions | 256 |
Notes | 259 |
Glossary | 285 |
References | 291 |
Index | 297 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman Cesare Lombroso,Guglielmo Ferrero Aperçu limité - 2003 |
Criminal woman, the prostitute, and the normal woman Cesare Lombroso,Guglielmo Ferrero,Nicole Hahn Rafter,Mary Gibson Affichage d'extraits - 2004 |
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Page 25 - This suggests, further, that any search for a well-defined type of individual, appearing as the delinquent ivoman, will probably be fruitless. Apparently the concept of such a type can not be saved even by expanding it beyond Lombroso's anthropological criminal type and pruning off certain of the absurdities incorporated in his idea.
Page 116 - Political criminals (female).— Not even the purest political crime, that which springs from passion, is exempt from the law which we have laid down. In the skull of Charlotte Corday herself, after a rapid inspection, I affirmed the presence of an extraordinary number of anomalies, and this opinion is confirmed not only by Topinard's very confused monograph, but still more by the photographs of the...
Page 8 - And women are big children; their evil tendencies are more numerous and more varied than men's, but generally remain latent. When they are awakened and excited they produce results proportionately greater. Moreover, the born female criminal is, so to speak, doubly exceptional, as a woman and as a criminal.
Page 124 - which we possess of this criminal, so full of virile angularity, and, above all, so deeply wrinkled, with its Satanic leer, suffices of itself to prove that the woman in question was born to do evil, and that, if one occasion to commit it had failed, she would have found others.
Page 139 - ... asymmetry of the face, breadth of jaw, enormous frontal sinuses, numerous wrinkles, a hollowed-out nose, a very thin upper lip, with deepset eyes wide apart, and wild in expression. No. 3, aged 21. Was married against her will, ill-treated by her husband, whom she killed, after a night altercation, with a hatchet while he slept. In her we find only a demi-type. Her ears stand out, she has big jaws and cheek-bones, and very black hair, besides other anomalies which do not show in the photograph,...
Page 116 - Tb be noted also is a most remarkable jugular apophisis with strongly arched brows concave below, and confluent with the median line and beyond it. All the sutures are open, as in a young man aged from 23 to 25, and simple, especially the coronary suture. The cranial capacity is 1,360 cc, while the average among French women is 1,337; the shape is slightly dolichocephalic (77.7); and in the horizontal direction the zygomatic arch is visible only on the left — a clear instance of asymmetry. The...
Page 135 - The first, aged 40, killed her husband with reiterated blows of a hatchet, while he was 'skimming the milk, then threw his body into a recess under the stairs, and during the night fled with the family money and her own trinkets. She was arrested a week later and confessed her crime. This woman was remarkable for the asymmetry of her face ; her nose was hollowed out, her ears projecting, her brows more fully developed than is usual in a woman, her jaw enormous...
Page 107 - professed a firm faith in anthropometry, especially cranial anthropometry, as an ark of salvation from the metaphysical, a priori systems dear to all those engaged on [sic] the study of Man.
Page 27 - The deviance of women is one of the areas of human behaviour most notably ignored in sociological literature.
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| Titre | Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman e-Duke books scholarly collection |
| Auteurs | Cesare Lombroso, Guglielmo Ferrero |
| Rédacteur | Nicole Hahn Rafter |
| Traduit par | Nicole Hahn Rafter, Mary Gibson |
| Collaborateur | Mary Gibson |
| Édition | illustrée |
| Éditeur | Duke University Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0822332469, 9780822332466 |
| Longueur | 304 pages |
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