Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal WomanCesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of the field of criminology. His theory of the “born” criminal dominated discussions of criminology in Europe and the Americas from the 1880s into the early twentieth century. His book, La donna delinquente, originally published in Italian in 1893, was the first and most influential book ever written on women and crime. This comprehensive new translation gives readers a full view of his landmark work. Lombroso’s research took him to police stations, prisons, and madhouses where he studied the tattoos, cranial capacities, and sexual behavior of criminals and prostitutes to establish a female criminal type. Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman anticipated today’s theories of genetic criminal behavior. Lombroso used Darwinian evolutionary science to argue that criminal women are far more cunning and dangerous than criminal men. Designed to make his original text accessible to students and scholars alike, this volume includes extensive notes, appendices, a glossary, and more than thirty of Lombroso’s own illustrations. Nicole Hahn Rafter and Mary Gibson’s introduction, locating his theory in social context, offers a significant new interpretation of Lombroso’s place in criminology. |
Contents
The Female in the Animal World | 41 |
Anatomy and Biology of Woman | 46 |
Senses and Psyche of Woman | 58 |
Cruelty Compassion and Maternity | 65 |
Love | 73 |
The Moral Sense | 77 |
Intelligence | 82 |
Crime in the Animal World | 91 |
Menstruation Fecundity Vitality Strength and Reflexes | 159 |
Acuteness of Sense and Vision | 165 |
Sexual Sensitivity Lesbianism and Sexual Psychopathy | 171 |
The Female Born Criminal | 182 |
Occasional Criminals | 193 |
Crimes of Passion | 201 |
Suicides | 209 |
The Born Prostitute | 213 |
Crimes of Savage and Primitive Women | 95 |
The History of Prostitution | 100 |
The Skull of the Female Offender | 107 |
Pathological Anomalies | 114 |
The Brains of Female Criminals and Prostitutes | 118 |
Anthropometry of Female Criminals | 121 |
Facial and Cephalic Anomalies of Female Criminals and Prostitutes | 127 |
Other Anomalies | 131 |
Photographs of Criminals and Prostitutes | 135 |
The Criminal Type in Women and Its Atavistic Origins | 144 |
Tattoos | 151 |
The Occasional Prostitute | 222 |
Insane Criminals | 227 |
Epileptic Criminals and the Morally Insane | 231 |
Hysterical Criminals | 234 |
Comparing Three Editions of La donna delinquente | 241 |
Illustrations in the Earlier Editions | 256 |
Notes | 259 |
Glossary | 285 |
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Page 25 - This suggests, further, that any search for a well-defined type of individual, appearing as the delinquent ivoman, will probably be fruitless. Apparently the concept of such a type can not be saved even by expanding it beyond Lombroso's anthropological criminal type and pruning off certain of the absurdities incorporated in his idea.
Page 8 - And women are big children; their evil tendencies are more numerous and more varied than men's, but generally remain latent. When they are awakened and excited they produce results proportionately greater. Moreover, the born female criminal is, so to speak, doubly exceptional, as a woman and as a criminal.
Page 27 - The deviance of women is one of the areas of human behaviour most notably ignored in sociological literature.