Cesare Lombroso: 8 books

Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the “born” criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. This volume offers English-language readers the first critical,...

Cesare 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,...

IT has never before happened that in the latest edition of a book I have had to disown so much in preceding editions; my first imperfect and spontaneous idea has never before been so modified and transformed, the final form being, perhaps, not even yet altogether attained.

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Personne plus que moi n’a été hostile au spiritisme, par l’éducation scientifique et les tendances. J’avais toujours regardé comme un axiome que toute force est une propriété de la matière et toute pensée une fonction du cerveau, et je m’étais toujours moqué des tables parlantes....

Extrait : Personne plus que moi n'a été hostile au spiritisme, par l'éducation scientifique et les tendances. J'avais toujours regardé comme un axiome que toute force est une propriété de la matière et toute pensée une fonction du cerveau, et je m'étais toujours moqué des tables parlantes....