Caesare Lombroso as a signal criminologist
- 1 May 2007
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Criminology & Criminal Justice
- Vol. 7 (2), 117-133
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895807075565
Abstract
This article is based on a contribution made to a panel discussion at the November 2005 meetings of the American Society of Criminology, a discussion that was triggered by a celebration of Nicole Rafter's and Mary Gibson's new translation of Caesare Lombroso's Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman. It dwells on how Lombroso and his book were generally received in the United Kingdom; how his ideas were in the main soon rejected but long memorialized; and how one might attempt to understand some part of why he should have been so dismissed, on the one hand, yet so retained, on the other, by invoking the familiar idea that he has been made continually and dialectically to play a signal, rhetorical role in defining by negation the theoretical backbone of an insurgent feminist criminology.Keywords
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