Criminal Man, According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso

by Gina Lombroso

Die Lehre von der Pellagra. Oscar Coblenz, Berlin, 1898.

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INDEX

A
Affection for animals, [62], [63]
Affections, of born criminals, [27]
in children, [133]
examination of, [222-225]
Age and crime, [102], [151], [152]
Akkas, tribe of Central Africa, [15]
Alcoholism, and hallucinations, [30], [82-84]
chronic, [81], [142-143]
physical characteristics, [81], [82]
psychic disturbances caused by, [82-84]
results of, [83]
apathy and impulsiveness of victims, [84], [85]
crimes peculiarly due to, [85], [142]
course of the disease, [86]
hereditary, [138]
important factor in criminality, [138], [141]
temporary, [141-142]
and epilepsy, [142]
effect on handwriting, [229]
Algometer, [25], [246]
Anfossi's tachyanthropometer, [237]
craniograph, [239]
Angelucci (Actes du Congrès d' Anthropologie), case of epileptic moral insanity, [69]
Anomalies, of criminals, [7], [10-24], [231-235]
of morally insane, [53]
Anthropology, criminal, defined, [5]
most important discovery of, [137]
practical application of, [262-279]
Aphasia, simulation of, [272] ff., [275]
Arson, [121]
Arts and industries of criminals, [44], [135]
Assaulters, [25]
Asylums for criminal insane, [205-208]
Asymmetry, [13], [53], [242], [261]
Atavism, [18], [135], [136]
Atavistic origin of the criminal, [8], [9], [19], [48], [135]
Australia, probation system in, [189], [191]
Austria, percentage of illegitimates among criminals, [144]
percentage of women among criminals, [151]
Auto-illusion, [108], [109]
Aymaras, the, an Indian tribe of South America, [6]
Azara, d' (Travels in America, 1835), [126]
Azeglio, Massimo d' (Reminiscences), [148]
B
Bain, [130]
Ballvé, Señor, director of Penitenciario Nacional of Buenos Ayres, [201]
Bank of Rome case, [106], [107]
Barnardo, Dr., work for orphans and destitute children of London, [158-160]
Beccaria, Cesare, founder of Classical School of Penal Jurisprudence, [3], [4]
Bedlam, [207]
Belgian Government, agricultural colony founded at Meseplas by, [202]

Belgium, probation system in, [191]
Bernard, experiments with dogs, [60]
Blasio, de, explanation of hieroglyphics of the Camorristi, [43], [44]
Booth, General, [156], [157]
Born criminals, [3-51]
percentage of, among criminals, [8], [100]
physical characteristics, [10-24], [231-255]
sensory and functional peculiarities, [24-27]
affections and passions, [27], [28]
moral characteristics, [28-40]
intelligence, [41]
relation to moral insanity and epilepsy, [58-73], [87], [259]
professional characteristics, [71]
difference between epileptics and, [72]
no criminal scale among, [152]
institutions for, [205] ff.
Bosco and Rice (Les Homicides aux Etats-Unis), on crime in Massachusetts, [173]
Brigands, [35], [113-115], [215]
Broadmoor, [207], [208]
Brockway, [192]
Büchner, on instincts in bees and ants, [142]
Burglars, [25]
Burton (First Footsteps in East Africa), [128]
C
Cabred, Professor, [203], [204]
Camorra, [44], [48], [117], [230]
Camorristi, hieroglyphics of, [43], [44]
dress, 230
Canada, homes for destitute children, [160]
Capital punishment, [208], [209]
Carrara, Francesco, [4]
Carrara, Prof. Mario, on neglected children, [130]
Cephalic index, [10], [241]
Children, destructive tendency, [65]
instincts, [130] ff.
affection, [133]
effect of environment on, [144]
institutions for destitute, [156] ff.
methods of dealing with, [176] ff.
susceptibility to suggestion, [226]
Children's courts. See [Juvenile courts]
Cinædus, [231], [244]
Classical School of Penal Jurisprudence, [4], [9]
Classification of criminals, [8]
Colour-blindness, [26], [249]
Confession of criminaloids, [105]
Connon, Richard, [53]
Coprophagia, [274], [275]
Corporal punishment, [191]
Cretins, physical characteristics, [227], [234], [236], [260]
dress, [231]
Crime, origin of the word, [125]
among primitive races, [125] ff.
in civilised communities, [134]
atavistic origin, [135], [136], [137]
ætiology of, [136]
pathological origin, [137]
organic factors, [137]
percentage of, among Jews, [140]
social causes, [143]
prevention, [153] ff.
curability, [153], [156]
Criminal, the, defined, [3]
Criminal type, [24], [48]
Criminaloids, [100-121]
percentage of, among criminals, [8]
physical characteristics, [102], [251]
psychological distinctions between born criminals and, [102] ff.
cases of, [103], [104]
reluctance to commit crimes, [105]
easily induced to confess, [105]
moral sense and intelligence, [106]
natural affections and sentiments, [106]
social position and culture, [107] ff.
clever swindlers, [108]
development into habitual criminals, [111-113]
and certain crimes, [121]
punishment, [186]
Cruelty, [39]
Cynicism, [31]
D
Dalton (Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal), [129]
Danish prisons, [195]

"Darwin's tubercle," [15], [235]
Dejerine, [138]
Delirium, [98]
Dementia, [76], [227], [259], [260]
simulations of, [272] ff.
Despine's method of punishment, [195], [196]
Destitute children, care of, [156]
institutions for, [156] ff.
Dewson, Miss Mary, [189]
Disease and its relation to crime, [8], [220]
Don Bosco, the Black Pope, [157], [173]
Drunkenness, temporary, [141]. See also [Alcoholism]
Du Bois-Reymond's apparatus, [25], [246]
Dundrum, Ireland, [207]
Dynamometer, [252], [253]
E
Economic conditions, relation to crime, [150]
Education, and moral insanity, [143]
and crime, [143], [149]
in Elmira Reformatory, [193]
"Educational Alliance," for Jewish emigrants, [172]
Egypt, theft in, [128]
Elmira Reformatory, [192-194]
England, crime in, [173]
juvenile court in, [176]
probation system in, [189], [191]
asylums for criminal insane, [207]
Environment, [8], [144], [145]
Epilepsy, ancient application of the term, [58]
characteristic phenomena, [58]
mild forms, [59], [60]
multiformity, [59], [60], [87]
psychological characteristics, [61]
effect on character, [62]
relation to crime, [69], [71]
motory and criminal, [71]
psychic, [88]
ambulatory, [89], [90]
alcoholic psychic, [142]
Epileptics, brain cells of, [22]
relation to born criminals and morally insane [58] ff., [87]
physical anomalies common to criminals and, [60], [61], [234]
psychological characteristics, [61] ff.
cases, [64-65]
criminal, [66-69], [70], [259]
difference between born criminals and, [72]
non-criminal, [89-92]
obsessions, [226]
dress, [230]
special offences, [259], [260]
Epileptoids, [101]
Erotomania, [96]
Esthesiometer, [245]
Examination of criminals, [219-257]
antecedents and psychic individuality, [220-222]
intelligence, [222]
affections, [222-225]
morbid phenomena, [225-226]
speech, [226-228]
memory, [228]
handwriting, [228-230]
dress, [230-231]
physical, [231-245]
sensibility, [245-251]
movements, [251-255]
functions, [255]
table of, [255-257]
F
Fines, [187], [191]
Fisherton House, [207]
Forgers, [46], [140], [245]
France, percentage of illegitimates or orphans among minors arrested, [144]
system for minor offences, [187]
probation system in, [191]
Frank, Francis, [223]
French Panama Scandal, [106], [107]
G
Gambling, [40]
Games, [40]
Garofalo, Senator, his table of penalties, [210]
George, Henry, [164]
George Junior Republic, [160], [164-167]
Germans, ancient, theft among, [128], [129]
Gilmour (Among the Mongols), [130]
Gipsies, [140]
Goitre, [220], [244]
H
Habitual criminals, [44], [110-115], [198]
Hallucinations, [30], [82-84]
Hamburg, percentage of illegitimates among prostitutes, [144]
Handwriting, [228-230]
Harwick, quoted, on sense of right and wrong, [33]
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society in New York City, [160-164]
Heredity, indirect, [137]
direct, [57], [137-139]
influence of, [144], [220], [235]
Hieroglyphics, [43], [44]
Homicide, among criminaloids, [121]
in Italy, [140]
relation of temperature to, [145]
in Massachusetts, [173]
and melancholia, [259]
Hydrosphygmograph, [223]
Hypnotism, [101]
Hysteria, [92-99]
relation to epilepsy, [92]
physical and functional characteristics, [93]
psychology, [94]
susceptibility to suggestion, [95], [226]
and delirium, [98]
sensibility to metals, [248], [261]
special offences of, [259]
simulation of, [261]
I
Idiots, impulses, [74], [258]
speech, [227]
physical characteristics, [235], [260]
Idleness, [40], [150]
Illegitimates, percentage of, among criminals, [144]
Imbeciles, [75], [259], [260], [269]
Imitation, [146]
Immigration and its relation to crime, [147], [148]
Imprisonment, [154], [186], [187]
Impulsiveness, [36], [85]
Incendiaries, [26]
Indemnity, [191]
India, infanticide in, [126]
theft in, [129]
Industrial Homes of the Salvation Army, [168]
Inebriates, crimes peculiar to, [85-86]
hallucinations of, [226]
Infanticide, [121], [126], [127]
Insane, the morally, relation to born criminals, [53], [57], [58]
cases, [53] ff.
relation to epileptics, [61], [65] ff.
professional characteristics, [71]
institutions for, [206]
dress, [230]
special offences, [259], [260]
Insane criminals, [74-99], [234]
characteristics distinguishing them from habitual criminals, [77], [78]
antecedents, [78]
motives, [78]
typical cases, [79]
institutions for, [205] ff.
two classes, [208]
Insanity, moral, [56], [65-69], [272] ff.
criminal, [74-99]
genuine and simulation of, [260], [276]. See also [Lunacy]
Institutions, for destitute children, [156]
for destitute adults, [167]
for women criminals, [180]
for minor offenders, [185]
for habitual criminals, [198]
for born criminals and the morally insane, [205]. See also [Reformatories], [Penitentiaries]
Intellectual manifestations of born criminals, [42-44]
Intelligence, of born criminals, [41]
of criminaloids, [106]
examination, [222]
Invulnerability of criminals, [64]
Italy, hot-beds of crime in, [140]
percentage of illegitimates among criminals, [144]
percentage of women among criminals, [151]
institutions for orphans, [157]
J
Jackson, on epileptic fits, [60]

Jews, percentage of crime among, [140]
Jukes family, the, [138], [139]
Juridical criminals, [115-117]
Juvenile courts, [176], [178], [179]
Juvenile offenders, [139]
methods of dealing with, [176] ff., [192]
K
Kleptomania, [141]
Kowalewsky (Archivio di Psichiatria, 1885), [63]
Krafft-Ebing, [84]
quoted, on somnambulism and epileptics, [63]
L
Labour, in reformatories, [166], [199]
enforced, profitable to the State, [202], [203], [213]
Lacassagne, [47]
Ladelci (Il Vino, 1868), [37]
Landolt's apparatus for testing the field of vision, [249]
Lewisohn, Mr., [161]
Lombroso, Cesare, discovery of median occipital fossa, [6]
new theory as to criminals, [52], [56], [57]

view of hysteria and epilepsy, [99]
on percentage of criminals of inebriate families, [138]
on criminal associations, [146]
Criminal Man, [9], [288-291]
Modern Forms of Crime, [9]
Recent Research in Criminal Anthropology, [9], [309]
Prison Palimpsests, [9], [155], [300-302]
The Female Offender, [180], [291-294]
Crimes, Ancient and Modern, [173], [302-303]
The Man of Genius, [283-288]
Political Crime, [294-298]
Too Soon, [298-300]
Diagnostic Methods of Legal Psychiatry, [303-305]
Anarchists, [305-307]
Lectures on Legal Medicine, [307-308]
Luciani, experiments of, [59]
Lunacy, general forms, [74], See also [Insanity]
M
Maccabruni, Dr. (Notes on Hidden Forms of Epilepsy, 1886), [89]
Mafia, [117], [230]
Magnaud, [187]
Maniacs, [76], [259]
Manzoni (Promessi Sposi), on instinctive tendency to law-breaking, [152]
Marey's tympanum, [224]
Marro (Annalidi Freniatia, 1890), [64]
Massachusetts, crime in, [173]
probation office in Boston, [189]
reformatories at Boston, [190]
Mattoids, [228], [229]
Median occipital fossa, discovery of, [6]
Melancholia, [75], [227], [252], [259]
Memory, [228]
Mendacity, [96-98]
Meseplas, agricultural colony at, [202], [203]
Metchnikoff, [14]
Meteoric sensibility, [26]
Modern School of Penal Jurisprudence, [4], [5], [9], [153], [155], [156]
Monomaniacs, impulses and motives, [77]
cases, [78], [276] ff.
handwriting, [228], [230]
dress, [231]
examination of, [276] ff.
Moral sense, of criminals, [28-40]
of criminaloids, [106]
Moreau, [130]
(De l' Homicide chez les enfants, 1882), [131]
Morel, [53], [98]
Mülhausen (Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Pacific), [129]
Murder, among gipsies, [140]
among Jews, [140]
in United States, [145]
Murderers, physical characteristics, [16], [18], [26], [46], [236]
moral sense, [29], [38]
imprisonment, [182]
dress, [230]
N
Newspaper reports of crimes, influence of, [146], [147]
Nothnagel's thermo-esthesiometer, [247]
O
Obermayer's methods in prisons, [195], [196]
Obscenity, [63]
Occupations suitable for prisoners, [197], [203], [204]
"Open Door," the, penal institution in Buenos Ayres, [203], [204]
Orange, [208]
Orgies, [40]
Osmometer, [251]
Ottolenghi, discoveries of, [61]
P
Paralysis, [75], [226], [229]
Paralytic, demented, [269]
"Paranza," [48]
Paresis, [82], [83]
Parkinson's disease, [252]
Passion, criminals of, [117-121], [186]
Patrizi, [224]
"Patta, La" [41]
Pears (Prisons and Reform, 1872), [196]
Pederasts, [232]
Pellagra, [76], [150]
Pelvimeter, [239]
Penal codes, [176], [178]
Penal colonies, [201-204]
Penalties, [153]
table of, proposed by the Modern School, [210-212]
Penitenciario Nacional of Buenos Ayres, [198-203]
Penitentiaries, [194-198]
Penta, on percentage of criminals of inebriate families, [138]
Perez,(Psychologie de l'enfant), quoted, on anger in children, [131]
Perth, Scotland, [207]
Peruvian Indians, [6], [7]
Physical anomalies of criminals, [7], [10-24], [231-245]
Pictet, [125]
Pictography, [43]
Pinel, [37], [53]
Plethysmograph, [223], [225], [264]
Poisoners, [31], [182]
Political offenders, [186]
Polyandry, [127]
Population, density of, effect on criminality, [146], [148]
Positive School of Penal Jurisprudence. See [Modern School of Penal Jurisprudence]
Pott, [125]
Poverty and crime, [150]
Precocity in crime, [222]
Preventive methods, [175] ff.
Primitive races, tattooing among, [45]
views of crime, [125-129], [134]
death penalty among, [209]
Prison life, effect upon criminals, [148], [149], [153], [154], [186]
Probation Office in Boston, [189]
Probation system, [178], [179], [188-191]
Professions and crime, [149], [150], [221]
Progeneismus, [13], [60], [243]
Prognathism, [7], [12]
Prostitution, [144], [151], [180]
Proverbial sayings concerning criminals, [49], [50]
Prussia, percentage of illegitimates among criminals, [144]
Psychology of born criminals, [27] ff.
Ptosis, [14], [236]
Punishments, [185]
corporal, [191]
capital, [208], [209]
R
Race and crime, [139], [140]
Recidivists, [46], [222]
Reformatories, [182], [192]
Reformatory Prison for Women at South Framingham, near Boston, [183-185]
Remorse, [29]
Repentance, [29]
Rescue Homes of the Salvation Army, [169]
Revue d'Anthropologie, 1874, [128]
Ribaudo, Brancaleone, [138]

Richet, experiments with dogs, [59], [60]
on hysteria, [95]
Roncoroni, discoveries of, [21], [22], [61], [100]
Rosenbach, experiments of, [59]
"Rota, La" [41]
S
Salvation Army, [167-170]
Samt, on epilepsy, [88], [90], [91]
San Stefano, island, convict population, [34]
Sensibility, general, [24], [245], [246], [277]
to touch and pain, [25], [245], [246], [277]
to the magnet, [26]
meteoric, [26]
of the senses, [26], [249-251]
localisation of, [247]
to metals, [248]
Simulation, [97], [261], [272]
Sisterhoods founded by Rabbi Gottheil, [170-172]
Skin diseases, [232]
Skull, formations, [10-12]
measurements, [239-242]
Slang, [28], [33], [42], [152]
Smugglers, [114]
Snow (Two Years' Cruise round Tierra del Fuego), [129]
Social causes of crime, [143]
Somatic examination, [260], [277]
Somnambulism, [63], [141]
South America, institutions for orphans, [157]
Salvation Army in, [170]
reformatories, [192]
penal institution in Buenos Ayres, [203]
Spain, percentage of women among criminals, [151]
Spencer (Principles of Ethics, 1895), [129]
Strabismus, [14], [236]
Strength, [27], [252]
Suggestion, susceptibility to, [95], [269]
examination of, [226]
case, [269]
Suicide, [119], [259]
Swindlers, characteristics, [16], [18], [20], [25], [46], [231], [245], [246]
percentage among criminaloids, [108]
cases, [109]
imprisonment of, [182]
Sydenham, on hysteria, [95]
Symbiosis, [212-215]
T
Tachyanthropometer, [237]
Tamburini, quoted, [37]
Tardieu (De la Folie, 1870), [85]
Tattooing, [39], [45-48], [232]
Temperature, relation to crime, [145]
Theft, instincts of, [37], [38]
petty, [117]
percentage of, among criminaloids, [121]
among primitive races, [128-130]
and paralysis, [259]
and epileptics, [260]
Thieves, physical characteristics, [20], [46], [150], [236], [243-244]
cases, [28], [29], [37], [38]
moral sense, [32-35]
handwriting, [230]
Tissié (Les alienés voyageurs, 1887), [88]
Tonnini, [62], [64], [65]
Traumatism, [140], [141]
Treachery, [34]
U
United States, institutions for destitute children, [160]
percentage of crime in, [173], [174]
probation system in, [178], [189], [190]
juvenile courts in, [178]
reformatories in, [192]
V
Vanicek, [126], [127]
Vanity, [35]
Vidocq, [35]
Vindictiveness, [38]
Volumetric glove, [224]
Volumetric tank, [223]

W
Weber's esthesiometer, [245]
Where the Shadows Lengthen, [168]
Women, percentage of criminality among, [151], [180]
nature of criminality among, [181], [182]
Work, motive force of every institute, [197]
Wormian bones, [12]
Z
Zakka Khel, criminal tribe in India, [129], [140]
Zehen, experiments of, [59]
Zino, [41]

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