Rationale of crime, and its appropriate treatment
Subtitle: being a treatise on criminal jurisprudence considered in relation to cerebral organization.
By: By M.B. Sampson. From the 2d London ed. With notes and illustrations by E.W. Farnham ...
Contributors: Farnham, Eliza W. 1815-1864, ed.
Publisher: D. Appleton & company; G.S. Appleton
Published: 1846
Place of publication: New-York; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Criminology; Phrenology
Description: "First American edition, cosiderably enlarged by Eliza Farnham with her extensive notes and with 19 engraved portraits from daguerreotypes made by Mathew Brady for this publication. Farnham was a matron of the Mt. Pleasant State Prison for Women at Sing Sing. Famous for her role as a prison reformer, Farnham was interested in phrenology, which linked character traits with the shape of the skull. -- from book sellers description
Notes: Originally published in the Spectator.

Published in 1841 under title: Criminal jurisprudence considered in relation to mental organization; published in 1843 under title: Criminal jurisprudence considered in relation to cerebral organization.