Criminal Man, According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso

The cases described in this chapter show the necessity of being able to estimate correctly accusations made against insane persons by criminals or normal individuals. Since, mor...

A criminal is a man who violates the laws decreed by the State to regulate the relations between its citizens, but the voluminous codes which in past times set forth these laws...

Preventive methods, the careful training of children, and assistance rendered to adults in critical moments of their lives, may diminish crime, but cannot suppress it entirely....

In order to determine the origin of actions which we call criminal, we shall be forced to hark back to a very remote period in the history of the human race. In all the epochs o...

Epileptic born criminals and the morally insane may be classed as lunatics under certain aspects, but only by the scientific observer and professional psychologist. Outside thes...

We have seen how, owing to disease, alcoholism and epilepsy, physically and psychically degenerate individuals make their appearance in a community of normal persons. But a larg...

No one, before my father, had ever recognised in the criminal an abnormal being driven by an irresistible atavistic impulse to commit anti-social acts, but many had observed (ca...

The curability of crime is an entirely novel idea, due to the Modern Penal School. As long as, in the eyes of the world, the criminal was a normal individual, who voluntarily an...

_Face._ We have already remarked on the excessive size of the face compared with the brain-case, owing chiefly to the high cheek-bones, which are one of the most salient charact...

Criminal anthropologists are unanimous in insisting on the importance of the results to be gained from a careful examination of the physical and psychic individuality of the off...

SUMMARY OF CHIEF FORMS OF CRIMINALITY TO AID IN DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN CRIMINALS AND LUNATICS AND IN DETECTING SIMULATIONS OF INSANITY 258 A few cases showing the practical appl...

_Skin._ The skin frequently shows scars and (in the epileptic subject to seizures) lesions on the elbows and temples. Marks of wounds inflicted in quarrels and attempted suicide...

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METHODS FOR THE CURE AND REPRESSION OF CRIME 175 Juvenile offenders--Children's Courts--Institutions for female offenders--Minor offenders, criminals of passion, political offen...

THE BORN CRIMINAL AND HIS RELATION TO MORAL INSANITY AND EPILEPSY 52 Identity of born criminals and the morally insane--Analogy of physical and psychic characters, origin and de...

THE INSANE CRIMINAL 74 General forms of criminal insanity, imbecility, melancholia, general paralysis, dementia, monomania--Physical and psychic characters of the mentally deran...

ORIGIN AND CAUSES OF CRIME 125 Atavistic origin of crime--Criminality in children--Pathological origin of crime--Direct and indirect heredity--Illnesses, intoxications, and trau...

EXAMINATION OF CRIMINALS 219 Antecedents and psychology--Methods of testing intelligence and emotions--Morbid phenomena--Speech, memory, and handwriting-- Clothing--Physical exa...