Chapter I: Front Matter

THE SCIENCE SERIES

Edited by EDWARD LEE THORNDIKE, Ph.D., and F. E. BEDDARD, M.A., F.R.S.

1. +The Study of Man.+ By A. C. HADDON.

2. +The Groundwork of Science.+ By ST. GEORGE MIVART.

3. +Rivers of North America.+ By ISRAEL C. RUSSELL.

4. +Earth Sculpture, or; The Origin of Land Forms.+ By JAMES GEIKIE.

5. +Volcanoes; Their Structure and Significance.+ By T. G. BONNEY.

6. +Bacteria.+ By GEORGE NEWMAN.

7. +A Book of Whales.+ By F. E. BEDDARD.

8. +Comparative Physiology of the Brain,+ etc. By JACQUES LOEB.

9. +The Stars.+ By SIMON NEWCOMB.

10. +The Basis of Social Relations.+ By DANIEL G. BRINTON.

11. +Experiments on Animals.+ By STEPHEN PAGET.

12. +Infection and Immunity.+ By GEORGE M. STERNBERG.

13. +Fatigue.+ By A. MOSSO.

14. +Earthquakes.+ By CLARENCE E. DUTTON.

15. +The Nature of Man.+ By ÉLIE METCHNIKOFF.

16. +Nervous and Mental Hygiene in Health and Disease.+ By AUGUST FOREL.

17. +The Prolongation of Life.+ By ÉLIE METCHNIKOFF.

18. +The Solar System.+ By CHARLES LANE POOR.

19. +Heredity.+ By J. ARTHUR THOMPSON, M.A.

20. +Climate.+ By ROBERT DECOURCY WARD.

21. +Age, Growth, and Death.+ By CHARLES S. MINOT.

22. +The Interpretation of Nature.+ By C. LLOYD MORGAN.

23. +Mosquito Life.+ By EVELYN GROESBEECK MITCHELL.

24. +Thinking, Feeling, Doing.+ By E. W. SCRIPTURE.

25. +The World's Gold.+ By L. DE LAUNAY.

26. +The Interpretation of Radium.+ By F. SODDY.

27. +Criminal Man.+ By CESARE LOMBROSO.

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The Science Series

CRIMINAL MAN

CRIMINAL MAN
ACCORDING TO THE CLASSIFICATION OF
CESARE LOMBROSO

BRIEFLY SUMMARISED BY HIS DAUGHTER
GINA LOMBROSO-FERRERO

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
CESARE LOMBROSO

_ILLUSTRATED_

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1911

COPYRIGHT, 1911
BY
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

CONTENTS

_PART I.--THE CRIMINAL WORLD_

CHAPTER I PAGE

THE BORN CRIMINAL 3 Classical and modern schools of penal jurisprudence--Physical anomalies of the born criminal--Senses and functions--Psychology--Intellectual manifestations--The criminal in proverbial sayings.

CHAPTER II

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 development--Epilepsy--Multiformity of disease--Equivalence of certain forms to criminality--Physical and psychic characters--Cases of moral insanity with latent epileptic phenomena.

CHAPTER III

THE INSANE CRIMINAL 74 General forms of criminal insanity, imbecility, melancholia, general paralysis, dementia, monomania--Physical and psychic characters of the mentally deranged--Special forms of criminal insanity--Inebriate lunatics from inebriation--Physical and psychic characters--Specific crimes--Epileptic lunatics--Manifestations--Hysterical lunatics-- Physical and functional characters--Psychology.

CHAPTER IV

CRIMINALOIDS 100 Psychology--Tardy adoption of criminal career--Repentance-- Confession--Moral sense and affections--Habitual criminals--Juridical criminals--Criminals of passion.

_PART II.--CRIME, ITS ORIGIN, CAUSE, AND CURE_

CHAPTER I

ORIGIN AND CAUSES OF CRIME 125 Atavistic origin of crime--Criminality in children--Pathological origin of crime--Direct and indirect heredity--Illnesses, intoxications, and traumatism--Alcoholism--Social causes of crime-- Education and environment--Atmospheric and climatic influences-- Density of population--Imitation--Immigration--Prison life--Economic conditions--Sex--Age.

CHAPTER II

THE PREVENTION OF CRIME 153 Preventive institutions for children and young people--Homes for orphans and destitute children--Colonies for unruly youths-- Institutions for assisting adults--Salvation Army.

CHAPTER III

METHODS FOR THE CURE AND REPRESSION OF CRIME 175 Juvenile offenders--Children's Courts--Institutions for female offenders--Minor offenders, criminals of passion, political offenders, and criminaloids--Probation system and indeterminate sentence-- Reformatories--Penitentiaries--Institutes for habitual criminals-- Penal colonies--Institutions for born criminals and the morally insane--Asylums for insane criminals--Capital punishment--Symbiosis.

_PART III.--CHARACTERS AND TYPES OF CRIMINALS_

CHAPTER I

EXAMINATION OF CRIMINALS 219 Antecedents and psychology--Methods of testing intelligence and emotions--Morbid phenomena--Speech, memory, and handwriting-- Clothing--Physical examination--Tests of sensibility and senses-- Excretions--Table of anthropological examination of criminals and the insane.

CHAPTER II

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 application of criminal anthropology.