Chapter 1

PAGE THE DATA OF CRIMINAL ANTHROPOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Origin of Criminal Sociology, 1--Origin of Criminal Anthropology, 4--Methods of Criminal Anthropology, 4--Relation between Criminal Anthropology and Criminal Sociology, 5--Criminal Anthropology studies the organic and mental constitution of the criminal, 7-- The criminal skull and brain, 7--Criminal physiognomy, 8--Physical insensibility among criminals, 9--Criminal heredity, 9--Criminal psychology, 9--Moral insensibility among criminals, 10--The criminal mind, 10. II. The data of criminal anthropology only applies to the habitual or congenital criminal, 11--The occasional and habitual criminal, 11--Comparison between the criminal and non-criminal skull, 12--Anomalies in the criminal skull, 12--The habitual criminal, 13--The crimes of habitual criminals, 14--The criminal type confined to habitual criminals, 18--The proportion of habitual criminals in the criminal population, 18--Forms of habitual criminality, 19--Forms of occasional criminality, 21-- Classification of criminals, 23--Criminal lunatics, 26--Moral insanity, 26--Born criminals, 28--Criminals by acquired habit, 30--Criminal precocity, 31--Nature of juvenile crime, 32--Relapsed criminals, 35--Precocity and relapse among criminals, 38-- Criminals of passion, 39--Occasional criminals, 41--Differences between

PAGE the occasional and the born criminal, 41--Criminal types shade into each other, 44--Numbers of several classes of criminals, 46-- Value of a proper classification of criminals, 47--A fourfold classification, 48.