BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE CHIEF WORKS OF CESARE LOMBROSO 310
Fig. 7. FIGURES MADE IN PRISON. MURDER OF A SLEEPING VICTIM 32
Fig. 10. DRAWINGS IN SCRIPT. DISCOVERED BY DE BLASIO 44
Fig. 11. ALPHABET. DISCOVERED BY DE BLASIO 45
Fig. 16. ITALIAN CRIMINAL. A CASE OF ALCOHOLISM 82
Fig. 22. TERRA-COTTA BOWLS. DESIGNED BY A CRIMINAL 134
Fig. 24. A COMBAT BETWEEN BRIGANDS AND GENDARMES. DESIGNED BY A CRIMINAL 136
Fig. 26. HEAD OF A CRIMINAL. EPILEPTIC 224
Fig. 36. CAMPIMETER OF LANDOLT (MODIFIED) 248
Fig. 37. DIAGRAM SHOWING NORMAL VISION 250
[Professor Lombroso was able before his death to give his personal attention to the volume prepared by his daughter and collaborator, Gina Lombroso Ferrero (wife of the distinguished historian), in which is presented a summary of the conclusions reached in the great treatise by Lombroso on the causes of criminality and the treatment of criminals. The preparation of the introduction to this volume was the last literary work which the distinguished author found it possible to complete during his final illness.]
It will, perhaps, be of interest to American readers of this book, in which the ideas of the Modern Penal School, set forth in my work, _Criminal Man_, have been so pithily summed up by my daughter, to learn how the first outlines of this science arose in my mind and gradually took shape in a definite work--how, that is, combated by some, the object of almost fanatical adherence on the part of others, especially in America, where tradition has little hold, the Modern Penal School came into being.
On consulting my memory and the documents relating to my studies on this subject, I find that its two fundamental ideas--that, for instance, which claims as an essential point the study not of crime in the abstract, but of the criminal himself, in order adequately to deal with the evil effects of his wrong-doing, and that which classifies the congenital criminal as an anomaly, partly pathological and partly atavistic, a revival of the primitive savage--did not suggest themselves to me instantaneously under the spell of a single deep impression, but were the offspring of a series of impressions. The slow and almost unconscious association of these first vague ideas resulted in a new system which, influenced by its origin, has preserved in all its subsequent developments the traces of doubt and indecision, the marks of the travail which attended its birth.