The Faces of Anarchy

Lombroso and the Politics of Criminal Science in Post-Unification Italy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4494851
AutoresD Pick (0000-0002-4378-2001, autor de correspondencia)
Año1986
Volumen21
Número1
Páginas60-86
Fecha de publicación1986-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory Workshop Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/hwj/21.1.60
OpenAlexW2021457882
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19

Lombroso is an ass.' Comrade Ossipon met the shock of this blasphemy by an awful vacant stare. And the other, his extinguished eyes without gleams blackening the deep shadows under the great bony forehead, mumbled ... 'Did you ever see such an idiot? For him the criminal is the prisoner. Simple, is it not? What about those wbo shut him up there forced him in there? Exactly. Forced him in there. And what is crime? Does he know that, this imbecile who has made his way in this world of gorged fools by looking at the ears and teeth of a lot of poor, luckless devils? Teeth and ears mark the criminal? Do they? And what about the law that marks him still better the pretty branding instrument invented by the overfed to protect themselves against the hungry? Red-hot applications on their vile skins hey? Can't you smell and hear from

Unification · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society