Criminal Sociology

by Enrico Ferri

CHAPTER I.

PAGE THE DATA OF CRIMINAL ANTHROPOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Origin of Criminal Sociology, 1—Origin of Criminal Anthropology, 4—Methods of Criminal Anthropology, 4—Relation between Criminal Anthropology and Criminal Sociology, 5—Criminal Anthropology studies the organic and mental constitution of the criminal, 7— The criminal skull and brain, 7—Criminal physiognomy, 8—Physical insensibility among criminals, 9—Criminal heredity, 9—Criminal psychology, 9—Moral insensibility among criminals, 10—The criminal mind, 10. II. The data of criminal anthropology only applies to the habitual or congenital criminal, 11—The occasional and habitual criminal, 11—Comparison between the criminal and non-criminal skull, 12—Anomalies in the criminal skull, 12—The habitual criminal, 13—The crimes of habitual criminals, 14—The criminal type confined to habitual criminals, 18—The proportion of habitual criminals in the criminal population, 18—Forms of habitual criminality, 19—Forms of occasional criminality, 21— Classification of criminals, 23—Criminal lunatics, 26—Moral insanity, 26—Born criminals, 28—Criminals by acquired habit, 30—Criminal precocity, 31—Nature of juvenile crime, 32—Relapsed criminals, 35—Precocity and relapse among criminals, 38— Criminals of passion, 39—Occasional criminals, 41—Differences between<p ix>

<p x> PAGE the occasional and the born criminal, 41—Criminal types shade into each other, 44—Numbers of several classes of criminals, 46— Value of a proper classification of criminals, 47—A fourfold classification, 48.