The Female Offender

by Cesare Lombroso

Authorised Edition

Genres: Nonfiction

313 pages, Leather Bound

First published August 9, 2015

About the author

Italian criminologist, physician, and founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology. Lombroso rejected the established Classical School, which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature.

Instead, using concepts drawn from physiognomy, early eugenics, psychiatry and Social Darwinism, Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited, and that someone "born criminal" could be identified by physical defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage, or atavistic.

Reviews

[Megan J · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wickedly interesting

:)

[Zahra · Rating 2 out of 5]

his theories aren't great in the modern era, but it was definitely interesting to read & use for my paper

[False · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read the 1895 edition first issued by Harvard in this country. During his time, Lombroso was a noted criminologist, but as advanced as his thinking was in 1895, it is definitely dated today. Especially his theories on female offenders. It's the usual: hysteria, rape, tattoos and thievery. There was a criminal "face" and body type. I read this strictly as a thing of misogynistic interest.