Criminals and their scientists : the history of criminology in international perspective / edited by Peter Becker, Richard F. Wetzell.

New York : Cambridge University Press, Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute, 2006.

xiii, 492 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

"This book grew out of an international conference ... in Florence, Italy in October 1998 ... sponsored by the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, and the European University Institute, Florence"--P.

pt. I. Nonacademic sites of nineteenth-century criminological discourse/ 1. The French Revolution and the origins of French criminology / Marc Renneville -- 2. Murderers and "reasonable men": the "criminology" of the Victorian judiciary / Martin J. Wiener -- 3. Unmasking counterhistory: an introductory exploration of criminality and the Jewish question / Michael Berkowitz -- 4. Moral discourse and reform in urban Germany, 1880s-1914 / Andrew Lees -- 5. The criminologists' gaze at the underworld: Toward an archaeology of criminological writing / Peter Becker -- pt. II. Criminology as scientific and political practice in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / 6. Cesare Lombroso and Italian criminology theory and politics / Mary S. Gibson -- 7. Criminal anthropology: its reception in the United States and the nature of its appeal / Nicole Hahn Rafter -- 8. From the "atavistic" to the "inferior" criminal type: the impact of the Lombrosian Theory of the born criminal on German psychiatry / Mariacarda Gadebusch Bondio -- 9. Criminology, hygienism, and eugenics in France, 1870-1914: the medical debates on the elimination of the "incorrigible" criminals / Laurent Mucchielli -- 10. Crime, prisons, and psychiatry: reconsidering problem populations in Australia, 1890-1930 / Stephen Garton.

11. Positivist criminology and state formation in modern Argentian, 1890-1940 / Ricardo D. Salvatore -- 12. The birth of criminology in modern Japan / Yoji Nakatani -- pt. III.

Includes bibliographical references and index.