Palimsesti del Carcere: Raccolta Unicamente Destinata Agli Uomini Di Scienza (Classic Reprint)

by Cesare Lombroso

Excerpt from Palimsesti del Raccolta Unicamente Destinata Agli Uomini di Scienza Ma non anticipiamo sui risultati di questo lavoro che desidero emergano spontanei e parlino da sè all'occhio del lettore spassionato e imparziale. Dirò solo due parole sulla distribuzione di questo singolarissimo testo. Presentandomi esso un materiale difforme, incoercibile, vi ho dato un ordine pur che sia, più per una guida al lettore che per' vere ragioni psicologiche, le quali intendo emergano spontanee nel l'animo suo al chiudere del libro. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

342 pages, Paperback

Published August 6, 2018

About the author

Italian criminologist, physician, and founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology. Lombroso rejected the established Classical School, which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature.

Instead, using concepts drawn from physiognomy, early eugenics, psychiatry and Social Darwinism, Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited, and that someone "born criminal" could be identified by physical defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage, or atavistic.