The Faces of Anarchy: Lombroso and the Politics of Criminal Science in Post-Unification Italy

Abstract

'Lombroso is an ass.' Comrade Ossipon met the shock of this blasphemy by an awful vacant stare. And the other, his extinguished eyes without gleams blackening the deep shadows under the great bony forehead, mumbled ... 'Did you ever see such an idiot? For him the criminal is the prisoner. Simple, is it not? What about those wbo shut him up there forced him in there? Exactly. Forced him in there. And what is crime? Does he know that, this imbecile who has made his way in this world of gorged fools by looking at the ears and teeth of a lot of poor, luckless devils? Teeth and ears mark the criminal? Do they? And what about the law that marks him still better the pretty branding instrument invented by the overfed to protect themselves against the hungry? Red-hot applications on their vile skins hey? Can't you smell and hear from

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