Creating born criminals / Nicole Hahn Rafter.

Author/creator Rafter, Nicole Hahn, 1939-
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1997.
Descriptionxi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction : born criminals, eugenics, and biological theories of crime -- Before eugenics : idiots and idiocy in the mid-nineteenth century -- Feeble-minded women and the advent of eugenic criminology -- Criminalizing the mentally retarded -- The rise of the moral imbecile -- Degenerates appear in the prison system -- The anthropological born criminal -- The criminal imbecile -- Defective delinquents -- Psychopaths and the decline of eugenic criminology -- Defective delinquent legislation -- The aftermath of eugenic criminology.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-270) and index.
LCCN 96035672
ISBN0252022378 (acid-free paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HV6047 .R139C 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold