Criminal Man

Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909), an internationally famous Italian physician and criminologist, wrote extensively about jurisprudence and the causes of crime. He produced more than thirty books during his lifetime.Mary Gibson is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include Born to Crime: Cesare Lombroso and the Origins of Biological Criminality. Nicole Hahn Rafter is Senior Research Fellow at Northeastern University. Her books include Creating Born Criminals. Rafter and Gibson translated Lombroso’s Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman, also published by Duke University Press.

• List of Tables xiiiList of Illustrations xvAcknowledgments xviiEditors' Introduction 1Edition 1 (1876) Editors' Foreword 39Author's Preface 431 Criminal Craniums (Sixty-six Skulls) 452 Anthropometry and Physiognomy of 832 Criminals 503 Tattoos 584 Emotions of Criminals 635 Criminals and Religion 706 Intelligence and Education of Criminals 727 Jargon 778 Criminal Literature 799 Insanity and Crime 8110 Organized Crime 8511 Atavism and Punishment 91Edition 2 (1878) Editors' Foreword 97Author's Preface 9912 Suicide among Criminals 10113 Criminals of Passion 10514 Recidivism, Morality, and Remorse 10815 Handwriting of Criminals 11116 Etiology of Crime: Weather and Race 11417 Etiology of Crime: Civilization, Alcohol, and Heredity 12018 Etiology of Crime: Age, Sex, Moral Education, Genitals, and Imitation 12719 Prevention of Crime 13520 Penal Policy 141Appendix 1 Giovanni Cavaglia 149Appendix 2 A Medical Examination of Parricide and Insanity 154Edition 3 (1884) Editors' Foreword 161Author's Preface 16321 Crime and Inferior Organisms 16722 Crime and Prostitution among Savages 17523 Origins of Punishment 18324 Moral Insanity and Crime among Children 18825 Anomalies of the Brain and Internal Organs 19826 Photographs of Born Criminals 20227 Sensitivity and Blushing in Criminals 20628 Moral Insanity and Born Criminality 21229 Summary of Edition 3 221Edition 4 (1889) Editors' Foreword 227Author's Preface 22930 Metabolism, Menstruation, and Fertility 23731 Criminal Communication 23932 Art and industry among Criminals 24433 The Epileptic Criminal 24734 Epileptics and Born Criminals 25335 Physiology and Etiology of Epilepsy 26036 The Insane Criminal 26737 Biology and Psychology of Insane Criminals 27138 The Alcoholic Criminal 27739 The Hysterical Criminal 28140 The Mattoid 28441 The Occasional Criminal 28842 Edition 5 (1896-97) Editors' Foreword 29942 Criminal Craniums (689 Skulls) 30143 Anthropometry and Physiognomy of 6,608 Criminals 30644 Political Criminals 31345 Etiology of Crime: Urban Density, Alcoholism, Wealth, and Religion 31646 Etiology of Crime: Heredity, Sex, and Politics 32547 Prevention of Crime 33148 Synthesis and Penal Applications 338Appendix 1 Comparison of the Five Italian Editions 357Appendix 2 Illustrations in the Five Italian Editions 364Notes 371Glossary 401References 411Index 417

“Cesare Lombroso’s Criminal Man has long been a classic of criminology. Mary Gibson and Nicole Hahn Rafter, in offering this finely annotated translation and showing the progression of Lombroso’s thought through five editions of the book, have made a great contribution to a broader understanding of this towering, yet often misrepresented, figure and his classic text. With its lucid introduction by Gibson and Rafter, and many original illustrations, this book will be a precious resource for the history of criminology and for European intellectual and social history more generally.”-David I. Kertzer, author of Prisoner of the Vatican: The Popes’ Secret Plot to Capture Rome from the New Italian State “Gibson and Rafter successfully show the evolution and complexity of Lombroso’s theories, and even the contradictions within them, which are obscured in standard textbook summaries. . . . This volume remains a valuable contribution towards the study of criminology, intellectual European history and social history more generally.” - Chiara Beccalossi (History of the Human Sciences)