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Summary
This book traces the intellectual history of criminology, analyzing the influence of early classical European concepts of criminality and the development of positivist methodologies. It is an original and carefully researched work, adding significantly to our knowledge of the history of criminology. From Cesare Beccaria's Dei delitti e delle pene to Charles Goring's The English Convict , Beirne offers refreshing and challenging insights on the intellectual and social histories of a variety of important concepts and movements in criminology.
"The attempt to transform the conventional connection between classicism and positivism is very original, yet with an originality which has strong contemporary connections."--Hunt, Professor of Law and Sociology, Carleton University, Ontario
"Beirne is so deeply immersed in his materials that he is able to go far beyond the usual cliches to make observations about which I frequently said to myself, 'Yes, of course that is what is going on here! Why didn't I see that myself?" -- Nicole Hahn Rafter, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University
Piers Beirne is Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Southern Maine.
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Toward a Science of Homo Criminalis: Cesare Beccaria's Dei Delitti e Delle Pene (1764)
Images of Dei Delitti e Delle Pene
Reading Dei Delitti e Delle Pene as a Text of Enlightenment
Enlightenment and Darkness
The "Science of Man" in Dei Delitti e Delle Pene
From the "Science of Man" to Homo Criminalis
Chapter 3. The Rise of Positivist Criminology: Adolphe Quetelet's "Social Mechanics of Crime"
The Failure of the Classical Project
The Statistical Movement and the Compte Général
Quetelet's Social Mechanics of Crime
Quetelet and His Critics
Chapter 4. The Social Cartography of Crime: A. M. Guerry's Statistique Morale (1833)
The Movement in Cartography
Crime, Development, and Education in Statistique Morale
Crime and Education: Statistique Morale and British Empirical Research
Chapter 5. Between God and Statistics: Gabriel Tarde and Neoclassical Criminology
Classical Penality and the Positivist Revolution
The Critique of Lombroso's "Criminal Man"
From Moral Statistics to a Social Psychology of Crime
The "Normality" of Crime: Tarde's Debate with Durkheim
Crime and Penality: The Neoclassical Compromise
Conclusion
Chapter 6. Science, Statistics, and Eugenics in Charles Goring's The English Convict (1913)
Calculations of Criminality: The Lombrosian Challenge
The English Convict 1: Confronting Lombrosianism
The English Convict 2: Mental Hereditarianism and Eugenics
