LIBRERIA RINASCITA, Ascoli Piceno - "CESARE LOMBROSO" MUSEUM OF CRIMINAL ANTHROPOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF TURIN. EDIZ. ILL di BIANUCCI PIERO; CILLI C. (CUR.); GIACOBINI G. (CUR.); MALERBA G. (CUR.); MONTALD

<DescrizioneEstesa>The guide intended to provide the reader the conceptual tools to understand how and why this controversial scientist came to formulate the theory of criminal atavism and what were the errors in his scientific method that led him to found a science that turned out to be so erroneous. For the centenary of the Cesare Lombroso's death, founder of criminal anthropology, the University of Turin has renovated "his" museum, unique in the world. This book includes the texts of the panels in the rooms of the Museum. It offers collections of anatomical specimens, drawings, photographs, examples of material evidence, written documents, and valuable craft and artistic works created by asylum and prison inmates.The museum presents thoughts of a scientist strongly interested in the problems of his time and driven by a profound curiosity toward crime and any form of deviance from the norms of 19th century bourgeois society, with abnormality also considered in a positive sense in people of artistic, scientific or political genius able to bring about human progress.