Criminal craniums (sixty-six skulls)
Anthropometry and physiognomy of 832 criminals
Intelligence and education of criminals
Recidivism, morality, and remorse
Etiology of crime: weather and race
Etiology of crime: civilization, alcohol, and heredity
Etiology of crime: age, sex, moral education, genitals, and imitation
A medical examination of parricide and insanity
Crime and inferior organisms
Crime and prostitution among savages
Moral insanity and crime among children
Anomalies of the brain and internal organs
Photographs of born criminals
Sensitivity and blushing in criminals
Moral insanity and born criminality
Metabolism, menstruation, and fertility
Art and industry among criminals
Epileptics and born criminals
Physiology and etiology of epilepsy
Biology and psychology of insane criminals
Criminal craniums (689 skulls)
Anthropometry and physiognomy of 6,608 criminals
Etiology of crime: urban density, alcoholism, wealth, and religion
Etiology of crime: heredity, sex, and politics
Synthesis and penal applications
Comparison of the five Italian editions
Illustrations of the five Italian editions.
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