Criminal Man

by Cesare Lombroso

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822337231
• ISBN13: 9780822337232
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"