Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of the field of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated discussions of criminology in Europe and the Americas from the 1880s into the early twentieth century. His book, La donna delinquente, originally published in Italian in 1893, was the first and most influential book ever written on women and crime. This comprehensive new translation gives readers a full view of his landmark work.Lombroso's research took him to police stations, prisons, and madhouses where he studied the tattoos, cranial capacities, and sexual behavior of criminals and prostitutes to establish a female criminal type. Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman anticipated today's theories of genetic criminal behavior. Lombroso used Darwinian evolutionary science to argue that criminal women are far more cunning and dangerous than criminal men. Designed to make his original text accessible to students and scholars alike, this volume includes extensive notes, appendices, a glossary, and more than thirty of Lombroso's own illustrations. Nicole Hahn Rafter and Mary Gibson's introduction, locating his theory in social context, offers a significant new interpretation of Lombroso's place in criminology.
List of Tables ix
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiv
Editors' Introduction 3
Author's Preface 35
Part I The Normal Woman
1 The Female in the Animal World 41
2 Anatomy and Biology of Woman 46
3 Senses and Psyche of Woman 58
4 Cruelty, Compassion, and Maternity 65
5 Love 73
6 The Moral Sense 77
7 Intelligence 82
Part II Female Criminology
8 Crime in the Animal Wlorld 91
9 Crimes of Savage and Primitive Women 95
10 The History of Prostitution 100
Part III Pathological Anatiomy and Antrhpopmetry of Criminal Woman and the Prostitute
11 The Skull of the Female Offender 107
12 Pathological Anomalies 114
13 The Brains of Female Criminals and Prostitutes 118
14 Anthropometry of Female Criminals 121
15 Facial and Cephalic Anomalies of Female Criminals and Prostitutes 127
16 Other Anomalies 131
17 Photographs of Criminals and Prostitutes 135
18 the Criminal Type in women and Its Atavistic Origin 144
19 Tatoos 151
Part IV Biology and Psychology of Female Criminals and Prostitues
20 Menstruation, Fecundity, Vitality, Strength, and Reflexes 159
21 Acuteness of Sense and Vision 165
22 Sexual Sensitivity (Lesbianism and Sexual Psychopathy) 171
23 The Female Born Criminal 182
24 Occasional Criminals 193
25 Crims of Passion 201
26 Suicides 209
27 The Born Prisotiute 213
28 The Occasional Prostitute 222
29 Insane Criminals 227
30 Epileptic Criminals and the Morally Insane 231
31 Hysterical Criminals 234
Appendix 1: Comparing Three Editions of La donna delinquente 241
Appendix 2: Illustrations in the Earlier Editions 256
Notes 259
Glossary 285
References 291
Index 297
