Title: The origins of criminology : a reader /
Authors: Rafter, Nicole Hahn, 1939-
Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Criminology History; Criminology History Sources.
Abstract: Criminology is a field of study which purports to bring scientific knowledge to the world of crime and criminals. The book brings together a collection of 19th-century texts from key originators of the practice of criminology - selected, introduced, and with commentaries by the leading scholar in this area, Nicole Rafter.
Contents: Eighteenth-century predecessors -- Phrenology -- Moral and mental insanity -- Evolution, degeneration, and heredity -- The underclass and the underworld -- Criminal anthropology -- Habitual criminals and their identification -- Eugenic criminology -- Criminal statistics -- Sociological approaches to crime.