This article analyses the impact of criminal anthropology, established by Cesare Lombroso, on the field of scientific policing in Italy. It focuses on the techniques and methods employed by police departments to identify and detect criminals and suspects at the end of the nineteenth century and during the first half of the twentieth century in order to control the so-called “dangerous classes”. In Italy, the Bertillonage system was introduced thanks to the efforts of Salvatore Ottolenghi (1861-1934), a pupil of Cesare Lombroso and founder of the Italian scientific police (polizia scientifica). While such identification techniques spread to many countries, their deployment in Italy was different, being strongly influenced by Lombroso’s conce...
Cesare Lombroso and his "positive school" of criminal anthropology were highly influential in the fo...
This book is an important contribution to the debates on the origins of organized crime in Italy and...
The article analyses the utilization of Cesare Lombroso as a character in some recent novels, in the...
The aim of this article is to briefly retrace the history of criminal identification tech- niques in...
Between the end of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, criminal anthropology...
/The study seeks to provide a non-teleological overview of a meaningful turning point of the "progre...
The study seeks to provide a non-teleological overview of a meaningful turning point of the "progres...
Secondo l’opinione dell’Autore, in una prospettiva storica, una approfondita analisi dell’evoluzione...
The crucial transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries deeply affected Italian positi...
Focussing on Cesare Lombroso’s work on the so-called 'sexual perversions', this chapter examines how...
L’obiettivo di questo lavoro è capire in che modo e fino a che punto la Scuola positiva di antropolo...
Un atto criminale può essere commesso da uno o più persone. Più raramente si è di fronte ad un inter...
Cesare Lombroso and his "positive school" of criminal anthropology were highly influential in the fo...
This article outlines, for the first time, the main junctures in the historical memory of Cesare Lom...
1noAbstract According to Author’s opinion, from a historical point of view, a thorough analysis of t...
Cesare Lombroso and his "positive school" of criminal anthropology were highly influential in the fo...
This book is an important contribution to the debates on the origins of organized crime in Italy and...
The article analyses the utilization of Cesare Lombroso as a character in some recent novels, in the...
The aim of this article is to briefly retrace the history of criminal identification tech- niques in...
Between the end of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, criminal anthropology...
/The study seeks to provide a non-teleological overview of a meaningful turning point of the "progre...
The study seeks to provide a non-teleological overview of a meaningful turning point of the "progres...
Secondo l’opinione dell’Autore, in una prospettiva storica, una approfondita analisi dell’evoluzione...
The crucial transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries deeply affected Italian positi...
Focussing on Cesare Lombroso’s work on the so-called 'sexual perversions', this chapter examines how...
L’obiettivo di questo lavoro è capire in che modo e fino a che punto la Scuola positiva di antropolo...
Un atto criminale può essere commesso da uno o più persone. Più raramente si è di fronte ad un inter...
Cesare Lombroso and his "positive school" of criminal anthropology were highly influential in the fo...
This article outlines, for the first time, the main junctures in the historical memory of Cesare Lom...
1noAbstract According to Author’s opinion, from a historical point of view, a thorough analysis of t...
Cesare Lombroso and his "positive school" of criminal anthropology were highly influential in the fo...
This book is an important contribution to the debates on the origins of organized crime in Italy and...
The article analyses the utilization of Cesare Lombroso as a character in some recent novels, in the...