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Criminal man

Cesare Lombroso

2006424 pagesabout 6–10 hours
2006
first published
  • 2006Duke University Press · 424 pages · ENGISBN 9780822337119

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, scholarly translation of Lombroso's Criminal man, one of the most famous criminological treatises ever written. The text laid the groundwork for subsequent biological theories of crime, including contemporary genetic explanations--Cover.

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