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Criminal Man, According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso

Gina Lombroso

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 240 pages

Criminal Man, According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso is a collection of essays by Gina Lombroso that presents her father's system for classifying offenders. It describes types such as the born criminal, the insane, the occasional, and the criminal by passion, offering historical insight into early criminology and forensic anthropology.

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THE SCIENCE
SERIES
Edited by Edward Lee
Thorndike, Ph.D., and
F. E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S.
1. The Study of Man. By A.
C. Haddon.
2.
The
Groundwork
of
Science.
By
St.
George
Mivart.
3. Rivers of North America.
By Israel C. Russell.
4. Earth Sculpture, or; The
Origin of Land Forms. By
James Geikie.
5.
Volcanoes;
Their
Structure and Significance.
By T. G. Bonney.
6.
Bacteria.
By
George
Newman.
7. A Book of Whales. By F.
E. Beddard.
8. Comparative Physiology
of
the
Brain,
etc.
By
Jacques Loeb.
9.
The
Stars.
By
Simon
Newcomb.
10. The Basis of Social
Relations.
By
Daniel
G.

Brinton.
11. Experiments on Animals.
By Stephen Paget.
12. Infection and Immunity.
By George M. Sternberg.
13. Fatigue. By A. Mosso.
14.
Earthquakes.
By
Clarence E. Dutton.
15. The Nature of Man. By
Élie Metchnikoff.
16.
Nervous
and
Mental
Hygiene
in
Health
and
Disease. By August Forel.
17.
The
Prolongation
of
Life. By Élie Metchnikoff.
18. The Solar System. By
Charles Lane Poor.
19. Heredity. By J. Arthur
Thompson, M.A.
20.
Climate.
By
Robert
DeCourcy Ward.
21. Age, Growth, and Death.
By Charles S. Minot.
22. The Interpretation of
Nature. By C. Lloyd Morgan.
23.
Mosquito
Life.
By
Evelyn Groesbeeck Mitchell.
24.
Thinking,
Feeling,
Doing. By E. W. Scripture.
25. The World's Gold. By L.
de Launay.
26. The Interpretation of
Radium. By F. Soddy.
27. Criminal Man. By Cesare

Lombroso.
For list of works in
preparation see end of this
volume
The Science Series
CRIMINAL MAN
CRIMINAL MAN
ACCORDING TO THE CLASSIFICATION OF
CESARE LOMBROSO

BRIEFLY SUMMARISED BY HIS DAUGHTER
GINA LOMBROSO-FERRERO
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
CESARE LOMBROSO
ILLUSTRATED
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1911
Copyright, 1911
BY
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

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Contents

  1. THE SCIENCE SERIES
  2. The Science Series
  3. CRIMINAL MAN
  4. CRIMINAL MAN
  5. CONTENTS
  6. ILLUSTRATIONS
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. PART I THE CRIMINAL WORLD
  9. PART II CRIME, ITS ORIGIN, CAUSE, AND CURE
  10. PART III CHARACTERS AND TYPES OF CRIMINALS
  11. APPENDIX
  12. INDEX
  13. THE SCIENCE SERIES
  14. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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