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First published in 1895, "Female Offender" is a work by Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso that focuses on women who commit crime, looking at what he supposed were the psychical and psychological characteristics that determined their criminality. Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) was an Italian phrenologist, criminologist, and physician who founded the Italian School of Positivist Criminology. Rejecting the classical school of thought, he maintained that criminality was inherited and that criminals could be identified by physical characteristics. Other notable works by this author include: "Crime: Its Causes and Remedies" (1899), "After Death - What?" (1909), and "Criminal Man, According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso" (1911). Contents include: "The Skull of the Female Offender", " Pathological Anomalies of the Female Offender", "The Brains of Female Offenders", "The Brains of Female Criminals", "Anthropometry of Female Criminals", "Facial and Cephalic Anomalies of Female Criminals", "Further Anomalies", "Photographs of Female Criminals and Prostitutes", "The Criminal Type in Women and its Atavistic Origin", etc. Read & Co. Science is republishing this classic work now in a brand new edition complete with introductory essay 'Criminal Woman' by Miss Helen Zimmern.

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