criminal anthropology

crim·i·nal an·thro·pol·o·gy

anthropology in relation to the physical and mental characteristics, heredity, and social relations of the criminal.
See also: criminology.

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One of them is the highly interdisciplinary Museum of Criminal Anthropology C.

From Michelangelo to the macabre, Milan's museums have it all

In chapter 3, "'Swarthy, Sun-Tanned, Villainous Looking Fellows': Tarzan of the Apes and Criminal Anthropology," Abate situates Tarzan's prowess as a killer of humans and animals alike within Cesare Lombroso's Criminal Man and the emerging field of criminal anthropology.

Murder for kids: children's literature and the making of an American tradition

The author defines and classifies criminology as part of the group of subjects which study the causes, among which : criminal anthropology, criminal psychology, criminal sociology, criminal statistics and demography.

Criminal policy in constitutional democracy. Terminology and concept

Gibson (2002) says that criminal anthropology promulgated the notion of race as a biological given and focused attention especially on racial differences by creating a hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, thus granting legitimacy to acts of oppression by the white regime and providing ammunition for propaganda for Italy's colonial policy in Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, and later Libya).

Was Cesare Lombroso antisemitic?

His main focus in this part of the book is the Russian reception of Cesare Lombroso's criminal anthropology.

Daniel Beer, Renovating Russia: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880-1930

Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) is considered the founder of the positivist school of criminology and the father of criminal anthropology.

The rise and fall of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology

If modern criminal anthropology, developed after Cesare Lombroso's shifting of the criminal in the 1870s, had needed the encouragement of a precursor, this might have been it.

Criminals and their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective

Pioneered by the Italian psychiatrist Cesare Lombroso, criminal anthropology argued that the proper object of criminological investigation should be the criminal not the crime.

The road to Siberia: Daniel Beer looks at how much Soviet labour camps owed to the theories of Russian liberals on crime, its causes and how to treat it

For critiques of disciplinary views of the history of Portuguese anthropology, see Diogo Ramada Curto, 'Contributions to a History of Criminal Anthropology in Portugal', Portuguese Studies, 14 (1998); Ricardo Roque, Antropologia e Imperio: Fonseca Cardoso e a Expedicao a India em 1895 (Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciensias Sociais, 2001), pp.

Equivocal connections: Fonseca Cardoso and the origins of Portuguese colonial anthropology

But attempts to legislate such a uniform code had long foundered over the issue of the death penalty (which the surviving Tuscan code had rejected) and were further complicated by the rise of Lombroso and Ferri's criminal anthropology in the 1870s and 1880s, which called the assumptions of classical criminology into question.

"The Tombs of the Living": Prisons and Prison Reform in Liberal Italy

Despite the importance of this topic for the question of what constitutes science, for this article on the development of criminology in Latin America the point of departure is the positivist science known first as criminal anthropology and later as criminology, which was founded in Italy by Cesare Lombroso, a doctor of medicine.

The Development of Criminology in Latin America

He uses Foucault to highlight connections between the oppressive potential of Lavater's pseudo-science as an instrument of classification and control and the evolving techniques of nineteenth-century criminology, particularly criminal anthropology and the archives of criminal photography.

Physiognomie und Pathognomie: Zur literischen Darstellung von Individualitat. Festschrift fur Karl Pestalozzi