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Caesare Lombroso as a signal criminologist

London School of Economics, UK and University of Pennsylvania, USA

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.

Key Words: criminal woman • feminist criminology • Lombroso

Criminology and Criminal Justice, Vol. 7, No. 2, 117-133 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1748895807075565


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