Nicole Hahn Rafter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3751085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Hahn Rafter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole Hahn |
| FAMILY NAME | Rafter |
| SIGNATURE | RAFTER N H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University’s College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern’s Law, Policy and Society Program |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular Culture
Investigating cinema under the magnifying glass From a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic and Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy, through scholarly research, but also in popular culture, through film. Criminology Goes to the Movies connects with ways in which students are already thinking criminologically through engageme…
Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society
Movies play a central role in shaping our understanding of crime and the world generally, helping us define what is good and bad, desirable and unworthy, lawful and illicit, strong and weak. Crime films raise controversial issues about the distribution of social power and the meanings of deviance, and they provide a safe space for fantasies of rebellion, punishment, and the restoration of order. In the first comprehensive study of its kind, well-…
Criminal Man
Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. This volume offers English-language readers the first critical, scholarly translation of Lombroso's Criminal Man, one of the most famous criminological treatises ever written. The text laid the groundwork for sub…
H. J. Eysenck in Fagin’s kitchen: The return to biological theory in 20th-century criminology
In 1964, the British psychologist Hans Jürgen Eysenck published Crime and Personality , the book that set forth his theory of the criminal as a psychopathic poor conditioner. Crime and Personality went through three editions, and even those who vehemently rejected the theory acknowledged it as the most highly articulated and influential biological explanation of crime of its time. Yet today Eysenck’s name is fading from criminological memory - an…
Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman
Creating Born Criminals
Creating Born Criminals
Journal Article Creating Born Criminals Get access Rafter Nicole Hahn, Creating Born Criminals. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xi, 284 pp. $36.95. Larry Goldsmith Larry Goldsmith San Francisco, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 42, Issue 4, October 1998, Pages 443–444, https://doi.org/10.2307/846059 Published: 01 October 1998
“Gender, Representation, and Social Control”: An Interdisciplinary Course
Psychopathy and the Evolution of Criminological Knowledge
Despite the recent publication of excellent histories of criminology, our understanding of the origins and evolution of criminological knowledge remains fragmentary. We know little about the development of the concept of psychopathy, for example, even though it is one of the oldest and most enduring of all criminological ideas; nor do we have much sense of how psychopathy theory affected the development of criminology as a field of study. This ar…
Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South
The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America
Benevolent Repression: Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement
Journal Article Benevolent Repression: Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement Get access Pisciotta Alexander W., Benevolent Repression: Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement. New York: New York University Press, 1994. xii, 197 pp. $35.00. Nicole Hahn Rafter Nicole Hahn Rafter Northeastern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History…
Criminal Anthropology in the United States
Criminologists continue to debate fundamental issues about the nature of their work. Some of the issues were built into the field by the criminal anthropologists who founded it a century ago. By examining the work of major American criminal anthropologists—a nearly forgotten group—one can identify the origins of three enduring problems: criminology's difficulties in (1) establishing its disciplinary boundaries; (2) defining its methods: and (3) d…
White Trash: The Eugenic Family Studies 1877-1919
Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling down
Journal Article Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down Get access Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down. By Martin Steve J. Ekland-Olson Sheldon. (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1987. xxix + 289 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, indexes. $21.95.) Nicole Hahn Rafter Nicole Hahn Rafter Northeastern University, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 1, Febr…
Female Felons: Women and Serious Crime in Colonial Massachusetts
White trash: Eugenics as social ideology
Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800-1935
Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800-1935
Gender, Prisons, and Prison History
Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800-1935
Journal Article Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800–1935. By Nicole Hahn Rafter. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1985. xxvi + 269 pp. Chart, tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $22.95.) Get access Ellen Dwyer Ellen Dwyer Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Pages 666–667, https://doi.org…
The Criminal Justice System and Women: Offenders, Victims, Workers
Prisons for Women, 1790-1980
Until recently, women's institutions and their inmates have received little attention in the literature on prisons. This neglect in part stems from the fact that over time women have comprised but a small fraction of the total prisoner population. Yet it is also the product of two common assumptions: that the development of the women's prison system and experiences of its inmates closely resemble those of men; or that, if different, the evolution…
Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman
Creating Born Criminals
Journal Article Creating Born Criminals Get access Rafter Nicole Hahn, Creating Born Criminals. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xi, 284 pp. $36.95. Larry Goldsmith Larry Goldsmith San Francisco, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 42, Issue 4, October 1998, Pages 443–444, https://doi.org/10.2307/846059 Published: 01 October 1998
Criminal Anthropology in the United States
Criminologists continue to debate fundamental issues about the nature of their work. Some of the issues were built into the field by the criminal anthropologists who founded it a century ago. By examining the work of major American criminal anthropologists—a nearly forgotten group—one can identify the origins of three enduring problems: criminology's difficulties in (1) establishing its disciplinary boundaries; (2) defining its methods: and (3) d…
H. J. Eysenck in Fagin’s kitchen: The return to biological theory in 20th-century criminology
In 1964, the British psychologist Hans Jürgen Eysenck published Crime and Personality , the book that set forth his theory of the criminal as a psychopathic poor conditioner. Crime and Personality went through three editions, and even those who vehemently rejected the theory acknowledged it as the most highly articulated and influential biological explanation of crime of its time. Yet today Eysenck’s name is fading from criminological memory - an…
White trash: Eugenics as social ideology
Gender, Prisons, and Prison History
Prisons for Women, 1790-1980
Until recently, women's institutions and their inmates have received little attention in the literature on prisons. This neglect in part stems from the fact that over time women have comprised but a small fraction of the total prisoner population. Yet it is also the product of two common assumptions: that the development of the women's prison system and experiences of its inmates closely resemble those of men; or that, if different, the evolution…
Psychopathy and the Evolution of Criminological Knowledge
Despite the recent publication of excellent histories of criminology, our understanding of the origins and evolution of criminological knowledge remains fragmentary. We know little about the development of the concept of psychopathy, for example, even though it is one of the oldest and most enduring of all criminological ideas; nor do we have much sense of how psychopathy theory affected the development of criminology as a field of study. This ar…
Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800-1935
Journal Article Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800–1935. By Nicole Hahn Rafter. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1985. xxvi + 269 pp. Chart, tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $22.95.) Get access Ellen Dwyer Ellen Dwyer Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Pages 666–667, https://doi.org…
Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South
Prisons for Women, 1790-1980
Until recently, women's institutions and their inmates have received little attention in the literature on prisons. This neglect in part stems from the fact that over time women have comprised but a small fraction of the total prisoner population. Yet it is also the product of two common assumptions: that the development of the women's prison system and experiences of its inmates closely resemble those of men; or that, if different, the evolution…
The Criminal Justice System and Women: Offenders, Victims, Workers
Gender, Prisons, and Prison History
Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800-1935
Journal Article Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800–1935. By Nicole Hahn Rafter. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1985. xxvi + 269 pp. Chart, tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $22.95.) Get access Ellen Dwyer Ellen Dwyer Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Pages 666–667, https://doi.org…
Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800-1935
Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800-1935
Female Felons: Women and Serious Crime in Colonial Massachusetts
White trash: Eugenics as social ideology
White Trash: The Eugenic Family Studies 1877-1919
Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling down
Journal Article Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down Get access Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down. By Martin Steve J. Ekland-Olson Sheldon. (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1987. xxix + 289 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, indexes. $21.95.) Nicole Hahn Rafter Nicole Hahn Rafter Northeastern University, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 1, Febr…
Criminal Anthropology in the United States
Criminologists continue to debate fundamental issues about the nature of their work. Some of the issues were built into the field by the criminal anthropologists who founded it a century ago. By examining the work of major American criminal anthropologists—a nearly forgotten group—one can identify the origins of three enduring problems: criminology's difficulties in (1) establishing its disciplinary boundaries; (2) defining its methods: and (3) d…
Benevolent Repression: Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement
Journal Article Benevolent Repression: Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement Get access Pisciotta Alexander W., Benevolent Repression: Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement. New York: New York University Press, 1994. xii, 197 pp. $35.00. Nicole Hahn Rafter Nicole Hahn Rafter Northeastern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History…
Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South
The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America
“Gender, Representation, and Social Control”: An Interdisciplinary Course
Psychopathy and the Evolution of Criminological Knowledge
Despite the recent publication of excellent histories of criminology, our understanding of the origins and evolution of criminological knowledge remains fragmentary. We know little about the development of the concept of psychopathy, for example, even though it is one of the oldest and most enduring of all criminological ideas; nor do we have much sense of how psychopathy theory affected the development of criminology as a field of study. This ar…
Creating Born Criminals
Journal Article Creating Born Criminals Get access Rafter Nicole Hahn, Creating Born Criminals. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xi, 284 pp. $36.95. Larry Goldsmith Larry Goldsmith San Francisco, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 42, Issue 4, October 1998, Pages 443–444, https://doi.org/10.2307/846059 Published: 01 October 1998
Creating Born Criminals
Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman
Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society
Movies play a central role in shaping our understanding of crime and the world generally, helping us define what is good and bad, desirable and unworthy, lawful and illicit, strong and weak. Crime films raise controversial issues about the distribution of social power and the meanings of deviance, and they provide a safe space for fantasies of rebellion, punishment, and the restoration of order. In the first comprehensive study of its kind, well-…
Criminal Man
Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. This volume offers English-language readers the first critical, scholarly translation of Lombroso's Criminal Man, one of the most famous criminological treatises ever written. The text laid the groundwork for sub…
H. J. Eysenck in Fagin’s kitchen: The return to biological theory in 20th-century criminology
In 1964, the British psychologist Hans Jürgen Eysenck published Crime and Personality , the book that set forth his theory of the criminal as a psychopathic poor conditioner. Crime and Personality went through three editions, and even those who vehemently rejected the theory acknowledged it as the most highly articulated and influential biological explanation of crime of its time. Yet today Eysenck’s name is fading from criminological memory - an…
Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular Culture
Investigating cinema under the magnifying glass From a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic and Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy, through scholarly research, but also in popular culture, through film. Criminology Goes to the Movies connects with ways in which students are already thinking criminologically through engageme…
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