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
Preventiv