Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman. Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of the field of criminology. His book, La donna delinquente , originally published in Italian in , was the first and most influential book ever written on women and crime. This comprehensive new translation gives readers a full view of his landmark work. Lombroso used Darwinian evolutionary science to argue that criminal women are far more cunning and dangerous than criminal men.
Loading interface About the author. Cesare Lombroso books 45 followers. Italian criminologist, physician, and founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology. Lombroso rejected the established Classical School, which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature.
Instead, using concepts drawn from physiognomy, early eugenics, psychiatry and Social Darwinism, Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited, and that someone "born criminal" could be identified by physical defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage, or atavistic. Write a Review. Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews. Search review text. Displaying 1 - 10 of 10 reviews. Meghan Hoefling. Primitive woman was rarely a murderer; but she was always a prostitute. Everyone knows that the sight of suffering makes us men suffer pangs of sympathy; and we cannot help sufferers if we, too, have spasms of pain. In brothels, women hold competitions, betting on who has the most beautiful sexual organs; naturally this ends up in lesbianism.
Outdated trash was almost laughable because of the stupid statements it was making. The fact that it was written years ago should not be an excuse for this abortion. Yomna Saber. I read the whole book, and although I disagree with almost everything that he says, I have truly enjoyed my reading and I believe this is a very interesting book.
