Chapter 1. Bodies of Evidence Chapter 2. The Savage and the Modern Chapter 3. Making Criminologists Chapter 4. The Shock of Recognition Chapter 5. Blood Will Tell Chapter 6. After Lombroso
David Horn is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of Social Bodies: Science,Reproduction and Italian Modernity (1994).
"Studies of the work of Cesare Lombroso are today exploding in a
wide range of fields, and therefore scholars need a clear,
sophisticated interpretation of Lombroso's ideas about the biology
of crime and his role in the development of criminology. This is
exactly what David Horn's important new study, The Criminal
Body:Lombroso and the Anatomy of Deviance, gives us. By situating
Lombroso's work in its historical and cultural contexts, Horn also
makes an valuable contribution to the social study of the sciences
of deviance." -- Nicole Rafter, Senior Research Fellow,
Northeastern University
"In The Criminal Body, David Horn re-introduces us to the
influential Italian School of Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) and his
followers. Few today share Lombroso's optimism, but late modern
societies are obsessed more than ever with identifying those
capable of inflicting intolerable losses, whether terrorists or
criminals. These societies (especially the United States with its
mass incarceration) find themselves increasingly caught in the link
Lombroso articulated between criminal risk, scientific expertise,
and governing the social. Horn's reconstruction of the power and
knowledge relations of the Italian School's scientific penology is
a brilliant contribution to the history and sociology of the human
sciences. More importantly, he opens an otherwise locked door into
a disturbing place, our present." -- Jonathan Simon, Professor of
Law, University of California, Berkeley
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