Criminal man : according to the classification of Cesare Lombroso / briefly summarised by Gina Lombroso Ferrero.
- Gina Lombroso
- Date:
- 1911
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Criminal man : according to the classification of Cesare Lombroso / briefly summarised by Gina Lombroso Ferrero. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![INTRODUCTION BY CESARE LOMBROSO [Professor Lombroso was able before his death to give his personal attention to the volume prepared by his daughter and collaborator, Gina Lombroso Ferrero (wife of the distinguished historian), in which is pre- sented a summary of the conclusions reached in the great treatise by Lom- broso on the causes of criminality and the treatment of criminals. The preparation of the introduction to this volume was the last literary work which the distinguished author found it possible to complete during his final illness.] IT will, perhaps, be of interest to American readers 1 of this book, in which the ideas of the Modern Penal School, set forth in my work, Criminal Man, have been so pithily summed up by my daughter, to learn how the first outlines of this science arose in my mind and gradually took shape in a definite work—how, that is, combated by some, the object of almost fanatical adherence on the part of others, especially in America, where tradition has little hold, the Modern Penal School came into being. On consulting my memory and the documents relating to my studies on this subject, I find that its two fundamental ideas—that, for instance, which](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28082394_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
