Born to Crime: Cesare Lombroso and the Origins of Biological Criminology (Italian & Italian American Studies)

by Mary Gibson (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2002

  $142.77

  Cesare Lombroso's 1876 work, Criminal Man , drew on Darwin to propose that most lawbreakers were throwbacks to a more primitive level of human evolution - born to be criminals. This is a provocative exploration of the influential ideas of Lombroso, the father of modern criminology.