Article: Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman.(Book Review)

Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman [La donna delinquente]

By Cesare Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero

Translated and with a new introduction by Nicole Hahn Rafter and Mary Gibson (2004) Durham: Duke University Press, 304pp., ISBN 0822332078

In this review I examine an intriguing book, written by one of the most controversial authors in the history of criminology--Cesare Lombroso's La donna delinquente (Criminal Woman, the Prostitute and the Normal Woman). Lombroso (1835-1909) was one of the founders of criminology and criminal anthropology who, despite the fact that his work has been widely criticised, influenced generations of ...

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