Crime: Its Causes and Remedies

Crime: Its Causes and Remedies by Cesare Lombroso
Gryphon Editions / Legal Classics Library, 1994. This special edition has been privately printed for the members of The Legal Classics Library. Full leather binding with gilt design at the front and back covers and gilt title, author and embellishments at the spine. Four raised bands at the spine. Gilding on all the edges. A booklet of "Notes from the Editors" on Lombroso and his place in the history of criminology is included and laid in. This volume is "as new" and in excellent condition.
About the book and its Author:
Cesare Lombroso, (1835 - 1909), was an Italian criminologist whose views, though now largely discredited, brought about a shift in criminology from a legalistic preoccupation with crime to a scientific study of criminals.
His final book, Crime: Its Causes and Remedies, appeared in English in 1911. It is, in large part, a response to his critics who questioned his belief that inherited traits were a determining factor in the causes of crime. The book relies on data and statistics to show that Lombroso is taking other factors into consideration (social, economic, etc) in his inquiries into the root causes of crime.