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Cesare Lombroso, a modern man of science

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Eden Paul translation

A.

Adaptation, deficient, of degenerates, 123

Africo-Hellene race of Calabria, 129

“Agrarian Investigation,” 114

Agrarian problems, Lombroso, 127

Agrarian reform, 156, 157

Aksakow, Von, 176

Alcoholism and criminality, 95

Altruism deficient in criminal types, 105

Analogies, Lombroso’s talent for the discovery of, 112

Anarchism, 149

Animal magnetism, 168

Anomalous character of genius, 162, 163

Anthropology, earlier and recent significations of the term, 10 note subject-matter of, 132 Lombroso’s conception of, 135, 137, 138 according to Virchow, Broca, and Mantegazza, 135 criminal, 18–54. See also separate organs, as brain, skull, etc. tabular statement of primatoid varieties, 27–29 fundamental notion of, 42 physiognomy, 47–53 tabular statement of distinctive anatomical characters, indicating abnormal congenital predisposition in more than 800 non-insane criminals, 54 significance of, 130–138 Congress for, 147, 148 of women. See “Woman as Criminal”

Anti-semitism, 149

Anti-social tendencies of degenerates, 104, 105 types, 119, 123 need for segregation of, 146

Ape-like characters. See Primatoid varieties

Apportionment of punishment, 131

Argot. See Jargon

Aristocracy, Jewish, 164, 165

Arrest of development in criminals. See also Atavism, 46

“Art for art’s sake,” in criminals, 89

Art, naturalism in, 133

Artistic method, new, the fruit of positivism, 134

Arts, industrial, and positivism, 133

Aschaffenburg, 60 note, 147, 177

Asymmetry, facial, 104

Atavism, 19–25, 45–48, 59, 60, 95, 96, 101, 105, 118, 160 162 and crime. See Atavism and prostitution, 59, 60

Austrian dominion in Italy, 165

B.

Bachofen, 180

Bacon, Francis, 113

Baer, A., 24 note

Bagehot, Walter, quoted, 66 note

Battery, Zamboni’s dry, 172

Bebel, 110

183Beltrani-Scalia, 80

Benedikt, 94

Bianchi, 175, 177

Biogenetic law, the fundamental, 118

Biological determination of social phenomena, 107 et seq. determinism. See also Determinism of Lombroso, 161, 162

Bismarck, 165

Bistolfi, 82

Blameworthiness, 131

Books consulted, list of, 177

Born criminal. See Criminal, born

Born criminals form a degenerative subtype, 105

Boucher de Perthes, 180

Bourgeois criminality, 87

Brain in criminals, 38–45

Bread-riots at Milan, 1898, 153

Breeding, racial improvement by, 129, 146

Broca, 135, 180

Bruant, 91

Brusa, 141

Büchner, 8, 179

Buckle, 107

Bunsen, 134, 179, 180

Burdach, 7

C.

Calabria, Lombroso’s work in, 114 races of, 114, 129

Camorra, the, 91

Cannizzaro, 181

Capital punishment, Lombroso favours, 128

Cardan, Jerome, Lombroso’s work on, 112, 162

Carrara, 81, 177

Cause and prevention, 158

Causes and prevention of crime, 147

Ceccarel, 177

Cerebrogenous characters, 27–29, 54

Chamberlain, Houston, 129

Characteristics common to criminals and epileptics, 98, 99

Characters, cerebrogenous, primatoid, etc. See under Adjectival term

Charcot, 168

Charuigi, 7

Cheats, 169

Child criminals, 97

Ciolfi, 175

Class-interests, power of, in preventing spread of truth, 151, 152

Class struggle. See Class war

Class war, the, and social evolution, 121, 122, 124, 125

Classes, differentiation by and through, 121

Clinical observation, 136

Comte, vi, 178

Congenital. See Inheritance

Congress for Criminal Anthropology, 147, 148

Conventional element in crime, 90

Correlation of growth, 104

Cosmic causality, 136 determinism, 69, 132–134 influences, 159

Cranio-facial developments, ratios of, 31, 34

Craniology. See Skull

Craniometry. See Skull

Crest, internal frontal, 28, 29 temporal, 29

Crime. See also Criminal and insanity, 84, 85 and imbecility, 84, 85 and disease, 97 causes and prevention of, 147 related to genius and to insanity, 164 political. See Political crime

Criminal. See also Anthropology, criminal accidental, 131 anthropology. See also Anthropology, criminal Congress for, 147, 148 positive foundation of, 134 significance of, 130–138 subject-matter of, 132 born, 100, 131. See also Criminal type

184Criminal born, the insensibility of, 88, 89 degenerate, 131 epileptic, 140, 145 habitual, 140, 145 insane, 131, 140, 145 jargon of. See Jargon jurisprudence. 139–149

“Criminal Man, the,” 140

Criminal nature, 131. See also Criminal type and Criminal, born and epilepsy, 98–103 occasional, 131, 140, 145 by passion, 140, 145 political, 119, 120. See also Political criminal psychology. 79–105. See also Psychology, criminal significance of term, 93 note tendencies, inheritance of, 96, 97, 101 type, the, 102 criticism of idea of, 55 meaning and limitations of the doctrine, 50 physiognomy of, 51 types, female, comparatively rare, 61–63 lack “mother-sense,” 63 woman. See “Woman as Criminal”

Criminality, atavistic, 160 by passion, 100 evolutionary, 160 influence of environment on, 160

Criminaloid, the, 64, 145

Criminals, cruelty of, 84–86 recklessness of, 84, 85 responsibility of, 85, 86 economic status of, 86, 87

Criminology, school of positive, 140

Crispi, 153

Cro-Magnon, prehistoric man of, 33

Crossing of races, and its effect on political evolution, 74

Cruelty in women, 58 of criminals, 84–86

Cunning and force, 160

D.

Dante, 173

Darwin, 33, 47, 117, 134, 180

Darwin’s “Descent of Man,” 33, 117

Darwinian tipped ear, 47

Darwinism. See Evolution

Death, indifference to, in criminals, 88, note penalty, Lombroso favours, 128

Decentralization of Government, Lombroso favours, 127

Degenerate, the, an anti-social being, 104, 105

Degenerates, 123

Degeneration, 15 et seq., 103–105, 159, 160, 162 and crime, 103–105 genius and, 162 practical significance of term, 104 stigmata of, 103 105 theory of, 160

De Goncourt, 180

Democracy, Lombroso’s faith in, 125

Dental abnormalities, 104

De Perthes, Boucher, 180

“Descent of Man” (Darwin’s), 33, 117

Despine, 13, 14

Determinism, 69, 107 et seq., 116, 120, 121, 123, 132–134, 138, 161, 162 biological, of Lombroso, 107, 116, 120, 121, 161, 162 cosmic, 69, 132–134 economic, of Marx, 116, 123

Development, moral. See Moral development

Diagnosis, differential. See Differential diagnosis

Dickens, Charles, quoted, 170

Differences, individual, comparatively unimportant, 161

Differential diagnosis of varieties of criminal, 83–91

Differentiation in human species, 122 sexual, 57, 58, 121 Lombroso’s law of, 57

185Differentiation, sexual, in savages as compared with civilized races, 58

Discovery, fruitful period of, in association with a positivist view of the universe, 133

Disease and crime, 97

Disraeli, 165

Documents of positivism, 178–181

Donna delinquente, la. See “Woman as Criminal”

Dostoieffsky, 180

Dubois-Reymond, 178

Du Prel, 176

E.

Ear, Darwinian tipped, 47 handle-shaped and projecting, 104 Morel’s, 48 peculiarities of, in criminals, 47, 48

Earpoint of Darwin, 47

Economic determinism. See Determinism factors of crime, 87 motive, supremacy of, 151, 152 status in relation to crime, 86, 87

Ellis, Havelock, vi, 58, note quoted, 67 note

Environment, 132, 159, 160 and crime, 160 and individual, 132 et seq.

Epilepsy, 136 chronic, 100 and criminality, 98–103 and genius, 162 as an hereditary equivalent of criminality, 103 larval, 100 Lombroso’s conception of, 99

Epileptic discharges, 161

Epileptoid states (Griesinger), 100 types common in prisons, 103

Epispadias, 104

Equanimity of criminals sentenced to death, 88 note

Equivalents, hereditary, criminality and epilepsy as, 103

Erotism, strong, abnormal in women, 59

Eskimo, skull of, 35

Esquirol, 7

Ethos and pathos, 164

Eugenics, 123, 128, 129, 146

Eurygnathism, 26, 29

Eusapia Palladino, 169, 172, 175, 176

Evolution of man from unknown primate asserted by Lombroso in 1871, 33 social, versus revolution, 120

Evolutionism, English, 7

Experimental method, Lombroso’s tendency to neglect the, 135–137

Extreme value of weights and measurements in criminal brains, 40, 41, 42 in criminal physiognomy, 49–51 in criminal skulls, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42

F.

Facts and documents of positivism, 178–181 Lombroso’s respect for, 134

Faraday, 178, 179

Fechner, 137, 180

Ferrati, 156

Ferrero, G., 56, 57, 81

Ferri, Enrico, 79, 140, 169, 177

Ferri, Luigi, 169

Feuerbach, 178

“First Principles,” 116

Flaubert, 179

Fontane, 180

Force and cunning, 160

Forehead, receding, 27, 31, 32

Forel, 168

Fossa, middle occipital, 28, 32

“Fra Diavolo,” skull of, 32

France and the revolutionary spirit, 68, 72–74

Frassati, 177

Free will, illusion of, 133

Frigerio, 48

Frigidity, sexual, of prostitutes, 63

186G.

Gabelli, 141

Gall, 13, 14, 17

Garofalo, 140, 141

Gasparone, skull of, 32

Genius, 70–73, 119, 120, 162–164 and anomaly, 162

“Genius and Degeneration,” 162

Genius and epilepsy, 162 its freedom from misoneism, 70 function of, in promoting social evolution, 120 index of, for the departments of France, 72 in the insane, 163, 164 and republicanism, 72, 73 and revolution, 70–72

Géricault’s drawing, “Tête d’un Supplicié,” 51

Gladstone, W. E., 181

Gobineau, 129

Goethe, 111, 113

Goncourt, de, 180

Gosio, 156

Greek racial elements in Calabria, 129

Greenlander, brain of, 44, 45

“Greeting from the spirit-world, a,” 176

Griesinger, 7, 100, 180

Growth, correlation of, 104

Gudden, 7

H.

Haeckel, 118, 181 quoted, 118 note

Hamel, Van, 142, 143

Handle-shaped and projecting ear, 104

Harden, Maximilian, 81

Heinze, 88 note

Hellenic racial elements in Calabria, 129

Helmholtz, 134, 178, 179

“Henkelohr,” 47, 104

Hereditary equivalents, criminality and epilepsy as, 103

Heredity. See also Inheritance criminal, 96, 97

Herschel, 178

History, determinist view of, 107 et seq.

Hohlenfels, prehistoric man of, 33

Homo delinquens, 120. See also Criminal industrialis, 122 neanderthalensis, 120. See also Primitive man sapiens, 124 natural variability of, and its consequences, 120

Huggins, 180

Humanism, modern, 125

Huxley, 180

Hygiene, racial, 128

Hylozoism, 133

Hypnotism, 168

Hypospadias, 104

I.

Ibsen, 180

Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People,” 154

Illusion of free will, the, 133

Imbecility. See also Insanity and crime, 84, 85

Impatience of reformers, 145

Imprisonment, Mittelstaedt on, 141

Impulsive criminality, 84, 85, 94

Inca bone, the, 35

“Inchiesta Agraria,” 114

Incorrigibility of criminals, 97

Individual differences, comparatively unimportant, 161 and environment, 132 et seq. factors influencing, 158–160

Individualism and Socialism, Lombroso’s attitude towards, 124

Industrial arts and positivism, 133

Inheritance of criminal tendencies, 96, 97, 101 pathological, 161, 162

Inhibition, lack of, in criminals, 42, 94

Innovation and misoneism, 66–69

Insensibility of born criminal, 88, 89

Insanity and crime, 84, 85 genius and, 163, 164

187Insanity, moral, 100–103, 117 a professional disease of prisoners, 97

Inspiration, cosmic determination of, 163

“Intellectuals,” the, and Italian Socialism, 149

Italian influence on penal reform, 143, 144

J.

Jargon of criminals, 88 note, 91, 92

Jewish aristocracy, the, 164, 165 spirit, the, 129

Jews, civil disabilities of, 2

Joule, 178

Judenhetze. See Anti-semitism

Jurisprudence, criminal, 139–149

K.

Kant, 111

Kirchhoff, 180

Kirn, 103

Knecht, 103

Kosciuszko’s “spirit,” 170

Kraepelin, 141

Krauss, 94

Kuliszew, Madame, 81

Kurella, 177

Kurella’s “Naturgeschichte des Verbrechers,” 94, 96

L.

Labour bureaus, Lombroso advocates, 128

“La donna delinquente, la prostituta, e la donna normale,” 56. See also “Woman as Criminal”

Land reform, 156, 157

Laschi, 78

Lassalle, 71, 180 characterization of, 71

Lavater, 111

Law, Lombroso’s interest in, 126 uniformity of, 137

Le Play, 179

Levi, Zefira (mother of Cesare Lombroso), 2, 3

Liebig, Von, 179, 181

Life-work as social reformer, Lombroso’s, 106–129, 148

List, 178

Liszt, Von, 141

Lombroso, Aron, 1

Lombroso, Cesare, birth, 1 the family, 1–3 childhood and youth, 1–10 family history, 1–3 antecedents, 1–13 revolutionary tendencies, 4 and Marzolo, 5, 6 and Panizza, 7, 33 and Moleschott, 7, 8, 9, 10 and Skoda, 9 and Virchow, 9 and Mantegazza, 10 and Golgi, 11 predecessors in research, 13–17 criminal anthropology, 18–54 comparison of European with melanodermic races (“L’uomo bianco e l’uomo di colore”), 33 opposition to his views, 55, 56 merits and defects of his work, 56, 57, 65 “Woman as Criminal and Prostitute,” 56–64 “Political Criminals and Revolutions,” 64–79 “L’ uomo di genio,” 72 “The Man of Genius,” 72 Archivia di psichiatria, 79 home life at Turin, 79–83 criminal psychology, 79–105 daughters of, 80 “Palimsesti del carcere,” 95 note on the relations between epilepsy and criminality, 98–103 his conception of epilepsy, 99 and the term “degeneration,” 104, 105 as a social reformer, 106–129 his methods, 106–129 his significance in the history of science, 106 et seq. his method of work, 111 et seq. his pathographies, 112 work on “Cardanus,” 112 talent for analogy, 112 188work in Calabria, 114 on the conception of “the social organism,” 116, 124 his principal contributions to sociology, 118 et seq. and the class war, 121, 122, 124 and “revaluation,” 119, 128 his attitude towards Socialism, 124 his philosophy, 124 as municipal councillor, 124 note not a “party man,” 124 and democracy, 125 and humanism, 125 and social reform, 125–129 views on Parliamentary government, 125 note, 128 views on universal suffrage, 126 note interested in the legal rather than the economic order, 126 and capitalism, 127 and industrialism, 127 and the agrarian problem, 127 and “protection,” 127 and decentralization of government, 127 and labour bureaus, 128 views on punishment in general, and on capital punishment in particular, 128 advocates artificial selection, 128 and eugenics, 128 on pellagra, 129 on races of Southern Italy, 129 significance of criminal anthropology, 130–138 on criminal law and its enforcement, 131 hylozoist ideas, 133 and positive science, 134 his respect for facts, 134 his hunger for material, 134 insufficient verification of facts by, 135 occasional credulity of, 135 spiritualistic experiences, 135 his conception of anthropology, 135, 136 his preference for observing states rather than processes, 135 and the experimental method, 135, 136 and Fechner’s psycho-physics, 137 often misunderstood by German biologists and psychiatrists, 137 and the notion of uniformity, 137 and positivism, 138 and determinism, 138 and social reactivity, 138 and responsibility, 138 and apportionment of punishment, 138 “L’ uomo delinquente,” 140 and criminal jurisprudence, 139–149 and “School of Positive Criminology,” 140 on punishment, 140, 145 and Ferri, 140 and Garofalo, 141 and Kraepelin, 141 and the science of law, 144 a utilitarian, 146 and the Congress for Criminal Anthropology in 1906, 147, 148, 157 pessimism, tendency to, in old age, 148 mystical tendency, 148 an optimist in the field of social reform, 148 as leader of Italian political radicalism, 149 and Marxist Socialism, 124 et seq., 149 freedom from opportunism, 149 opposed to compromise, 149 the pellagra controversy, 149–157 proscribed for political reasons in 1898, 153 boycotted by the well-to-do, 154 189“Cause and Prevention” the keynote of his life-work, 154 as experimental pathologist, 155 and agrarian reform, 156, 157 his character, 157 as “an enemy of the people,” 154, 157 on “Cause and Prevention,” 158 on the influence of environment, 159, 160 “Causes and Prevention of Crime,” 160 his biological determinism, 161, 162 “The Man of Genius,” 162, 163 “Genius and Degeneration,” 162 “Insanity of Cardanus,” 162 life-work of, 164 his genius and personality, 164–166 a member of the Jewish aristocracy, 164, 165 “the slave of facts,” 165 his ready grasp of the essential, 166 contributions to Italian culture, 166 spiritualistic researches, 167–176 and Eusapia Palladino, 169, 172, 175, 176 effect on his character of the hostile reception of his theories regarding the etiology of pellagra, 172, 173 “Studi sull’ ipnotismo e sulla credulità,” 173, 174 on the material nature of the will, 174 on muscle-reading, 174 on thought-transference, 174 on misoneism as a hindrance to the acceptance of new discoveries, 175 “Ricerche sui fenomeni ipnotisi e spiritici” (a posthumous work), 176 and the “Spirit-World,” 176 Gina, 177 Paola, 177 contributions to “Positivism,” 180, 181

Loria, 78, 124

Lubbock, 181

Lucas, 14

Lucchini, 141

Lumbroso, 1 note

Lunatic, the criminal, 140, 145

“L’ uomo delinquente,” 140

Luzzati, Luigi, 78

Lyell, 134, 179, 180

M.

Maffia, the, 91

Magnet, its alleged influence upon suggested colour sensations 173, 174

Magnetism, animal, 168

“Man of Genius, the,” 162, 163

Man, palæolithic, 44 prehistoric. See Primitive man primitive. See Primitive man

Manet, 180

Man’s place in Nature, 117, 134

Mantegazza, 10, 135

Marriage and prostitution, 67 note

Marx, Karl, 107, 108, 110, 116, 124, 149, 179 and Marxism, 124

Marzolo, 5, 6, 157

Masochistic nature of woman, 59

Material nature of the will, 174

Materialism, 107 et seq. See also Determinism German, 7

Matteucci, 178

Mattoids, 77, 118 and revolts, 71

Mayer, R., 134, 178

Measurement of punishment, 131, 138

190Medievalism, persistent, 5

Mediterranean region, races of, 129

Mediums, spiritualistic, 136

Meteorological influences, 159

Method of work, Lombroso’s, 111 et seq.

Meynert, 181

Microcephaly, partial, in relation to criminality, 41

Milan, bread-riots at, 1898, 153

Mill, J. S., 178, 180, 181

Millet, 179

Misoneism, 66–76 as manifested in the pellagra controversy, 151 in relation to new discoveries, 175

Mittelstaedt, 141

Moeli, 103

Moleschott, 7, 8, 9, 10, 134, 179

Moral development, inferior in women, 59 ultimate goal of, 59 imbecile, the, 102 imbecility, 104 insanity, 100–103

Morality, traditional and ideal, 67 note

Morbidity and crime, 97

Morel, 13–17, 105, 179

Morel’s ear, 48

“Morlocks,” the, 123 note

Mosso’s plethysmograph, 172

Motherhood, woman’s function of, its influence on her sexual differentiation, 57–59

Mother-sense, lack of, in genuine women criminals and in prostitutes, 63 unimpaired, in female criminals, by passion, and female occasional criminals, 62, 63

Müller, F. Max, quoted, 92 note

Muscle-reading, 174

N.

Naegeli, 179

Naturalism in art, 133

Nature, criminal. See Criminal type

Nature, man’s place in, 117, 134

Neanderthal, 32, 120

Nicolson, 14, 16

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 86, 163

Non-moral, woman fundamentally so (in Lombroso’s view), 59

O.

Occasional criminals form the majority of women criminals, 62–64

Occultism. See Spiritualism

Organizations, criminal, 91

“Organism” of human society, 116 a strained metaphor, 124

Organs, rudimentary. See Rudimentary

Ossification of sutures of skull, peculiarities in, 34, 35

P.

Palæolithic man, 44

Palladino, Eusapia, 169, 172, 175, 176

Panizza, Bartolomeo, 7, 33

Parasitism of criminals, 95

Parliamentary government, Lombroso on, 125 note, 128

Passion, criminality by, 100

Pasteur, 180

Pathographies, 112, 163

Pathological inheritance, 161

Pathos and ethos, 164

Pellagra, 12, 129, 149–157, 172, 173 recent theories as to its etiology, 152, 153 note in the United States, 156 note

Pellagrozeïn, 156

Pellizzi, 45, 156

Penal reform, 139–149

Perthes, Boucher de, 180

Pflüger, 134, 179

“Physical phenomena” of spiritualism, Lombroso’s interpretation of, 171

Physiognomy, the criminal, 47–53

Pickmann, 172, 176

191Place in Nature, man’s, 134

Play, le, 179

Plehve, 110

Plethysmograph, Mosso’s, 172

Poetry and art, naturalism in, 133

Political crime, essence of, 67 individual factors of, 76–79

“Political crime,” 119

Political criminals, 55 classification of, 55, 56

“Political Criminals and Revolution,” 64–79

Politics, realism in, 133

Porta, 173

Positive criminology, school of, 140 view of the world, 133

Positivism, 134, 138 French, 7 and the industrial arts, 133 and scientific progress, 133 preparatory work (1841–1850), 178 dominance (1851–1860), 179 four classical years (1857–1860), 179, 180 after-effects (1861–1865), 180, 181 facts and documents of, 178–181

Predisposition to crime, 160 its organic character, 97

Prehistoric man. See Primitive Man

Prel, du, 176

Preyer, 168

Prichard, 14, 16, 17

Primatoid varieties, 27, 29, 30, 43, 44, 54 definition of term, 30, 31

Primitive man, 32, 33. See also Atavism

Professional crime, 90

Prognathism, 27, 31

Progress as influenced by climatic and other physical conditions, 72–76 inevitable slowness of, 68 positivism and, 133 prerequisites of, 67 et seq.

Proletarian, the, 122 criminality, 86

Prometheus, the fire of, 164

Prostitute, the, 56

Prostitutes, commonly sexually frigid, 63

Prostitution, 115 antiquity of, 59 an atavistic phenomenon in Lombroso’s view, 58, 59 as counterpart of major criminality in the male, 60–62 and marriage, 67 note

Protection, Lombroso opposed to, 127

Pseudo-genius and revolt, 71

Psycho-physics, 137

Psychology, criminal, 79–105

Punishment, 138 apportionment of, 131 theory of, 145, 146

Q.

Quetelet, 107, 160, 178

R.

Races of Calabria, 114, 129

Races of Southern Italy, 114, 129

Radicalism, Lombroso and, 149

Ranke, Johannes, 40–42

Reaction the fruit of too rapid innovation, 68–70

Reactivity, social, 131, 138, 142

Realism in politics, 133

Receding forehead. See Forehead Recidivism, 97

Reciprocal action between individual and environment, 132–134

Recklessness of criminals, 84, 85

Reform, agrarian, 156, 157 penal, 139–149

Reformer, social, Lombroso as, 106–129, 148

Reformers, impatience of, 145

Reforms, true, how effected, 126. See also Misoneism

Reich, 8

Relapses into crime, 97

Renan, 8, 180

192Republicanism and genius, 72, 73

Researches into spiritualism, 167–176

Responsibility, 83–86, 97, 130, 132, 133, 138 the problem of, 130, 132, 138

Revaluation of old values, 119, 128

Revolts, 71

Revolution, 64–79. See also Political crime nature of, 70

Revolutionist. See Political criminal by passion, 77

Ribot, 96

“Ricerche sui fenomeni ipnotisi e spiritici,” 176

Richet, 168, 169

Ride du vice, 53

Ridges, superciliary, 27, 32

Romance peoples of Mediterranean region, 129

Roncoroni, 45

Rudimentary organs, 45–47

Ruhmkorff, 179

Russell, Lord John, 181

S.

Sander, 103

Scaphocephaly, 35

Schaeffle, 117

Schiff, 179

Schleicher, 180

Schönlank, 110

School of Positive Criminology, 140

Schopenhauer, 107, 117, 179

Science. See Positivism

Scientific. See Positive

Segregation of anti-social types, 146

Selection, artificial, 128. See also Eugenics

Semitic racial elements, importance of, 129

Semper, 180

Sensibility, lesser, of woman, 58 lack of, in born criminals, 88, 89 and in epileptics, 99

Sergi, 169

Sexual differentiation, 57, 58, 126, See also Differentiation Lombroso’s law of, 57 in savages as compared with civilized races, 58

Sexual frigidity of prostitutes, 63

Sexuality increased in genuinely criminal feminine types, 63 not increased in female criminals by passion and female occasional criminals, 63

Siemiradzki, 169, 170, 176

Significance of criminal anthropology, 130–138

Simian characteristics of criminals. See Primatoid varieties

Skoda, 9

Skull, anomalies of, in relation to moral imbecility, 104 cubical capacity of, 36–38 Eskimo, 25 eurygnathism, 26, 29 Inca bone, 35 measurements of, extreme values common in criminals, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42 peculiarities of, in relation to criminal anthropology, 26–39 peculiarities in ossification of sutures, 34, 35 prognathism, 27, 31 scaphocephaly, 35 stenocrotaphy, 41 submicrocephalic, in criminals, 37 sutures, ossification of, 34, 35 Wormian bones, 35

Slang. See Jargon

Social environment, man and, 132–134 inadequacy of degenerate individuals, 104 reactivity, 131, 138, 142 versus punishment, 142 reformer, Lombroso as, 106–129, 148

193Social sentiments, their congenital character, 119

Socialism, Italian school of, 124 Lombroso and, 124 et seq., 149

Socialist? was Lombroso a, 124

Society as an “organism,” conception of, 116, 117

Sociology, Lombroso’s principal contribution to, 118 et seq.

Sommer, 103, 177

Soutenage, 60

Spencer, Herbert, 116, 117, 178, 180

Spinoza, 107, 117

Spiritualistic researches, 167–176

“Spirit-world,” the, 176

Spy, prehistoric human remains of, 32

Statistical method, the, 134, 136

Steinheil, Madame, 83

Stenocrotaphy, 41

Stigmata of degeneration, 103–105, 136

Stone Age, 44

Struggle, the class. See Class war

Subject-matter of criminal anthropology, 132

Suffrage, universal, Lombroso’s views on, 126 note

Suggestion in the waking state, 168

Superman, criminal’s own persuasion that he is, 46

Supermen, breeding of, 123, 128, 129

Sutures of skull, peculiarities in ossification, 34, 35

Sympathy, greater development of, in women, 58, 59

T.

Taine, 181

Tamburini, 175

Tariffs, protectionist, Lombroso opposed to, 127

Tattooing, 92, 93

Teeth, abnormalities of, 104

Telepathy, 167, 168, 169, 174, 175

Teleurgists, 169

Telluric influences, 159

Temperature and political crime, 75, 76

Thaumaturgy, 168, 169

Theory of punishment, 145, 146

Theromorphism, 12, 19, 20, 21, 58

Theromorphs in women, their significance greater than in men, 58

Thomson, J. Bruce, 14

Thought-reading, 167, 168, 169, 174, 175

Thought-transference, 167, 168, 169, 174, 175

“Time Machine, the,” quoted, 122 note

Tirelli, 156

Tocqueville, 179

Toldt’s “Atlas of Human Anatomy,” 35 note

Tolstoy, 180 and “The Hanging Czar,” 153

Torus occipitalis, 29 palatinus, 26

Tourgueneff, 180

Traditional criminality, 90

Trance, 136

Trance-state, the, 176

Trickery, “spiritualistic,” 169

Troppmann, 88 note

Truth, alleged dangers of, 9

Tubercle of Darwin, 47

Type, criminal. See Criminal

U.

Universal suffrage. See Suffrage

V.

Values, extreme, of weights and measurements. See Extreme values revaluation of, 119, 128

Van Hamel, 142, 143

Vanity of habitual criminal, 89

Variability, lesser, of woman, 58

Vico, 5, 107

Villon, François, 91

Virchow, 9, 135, 179

Von Alesakow, 176

194Von Liebig, 179, 181

Von Liszt, 141

W.

Wages and prices in relation to crime, 87, 88

Wagner, A., 180

Wagner, Richard, 163, 178, 179

War, the class. See Class war

Weber, W., 178

Wells, H. G., quoted, 122 note

Westermarck, 59

Whitman, Walt, 179

Will, the, and action at a distance, 174 material nature of, 174

Woman, lesser variability of, 58 lesser sensibility of (general, and to pain), 58 sympathy, greater development of, 58, 59 cruelty in, 58 masochistic nature of, 59 erotism, strong, abnormal in, 59 moral development, inferiority of, 59

Woman as criminal, 55–64 absence of distinctive anthropological characters in, 55, 56 prostitution in women regarded by Lombroso as counterpart of criminality in men, 60, 61 comparative infrequency of criminality in women, 61, 62 chiefly criminals by passion and occasional criminals, 62, 63, 64

Woolner’s tip, 47

World-all, the, 132 et seq.

Wormian bones, 35

Wundt, 180

Y.

Youthful criminals, 97

Z.

Zamboni’s dry battery, 172

Zola, 180

Zöllner, 168

Zukunft, 81

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