Criminology

Author: Garofalo
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: "Garofalo offers a very reasonable perspective on criminology, without a trace of false sentiment. His views on the issue foreshadow a new stage of modern and progressive criminal science." — E. Ray Stevens (Member of the Executive Committee of the American Society of Criminology and Criminal Justice), from the preface of the English translation of the book. "Among all European scholars who study crime and criminals, no one has as many English readers as the author of this book, Garofalo. His main theories are characterized by simplicity and directness." — Robert Vines Miller, from the preface of the English translator of the book. Garofalo (1852-1934) was an Italian lawyer and criminologist, one of the main representatives of the school of criminal anthropology. Criminology was first published in 1885 and has been reprinted many times, translated into multiple languages such as English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. In this book, the author first proposed the concept of natural crime, and his research had significant implications for the empirical research methods in criminology. Criminology is one of the more influential works in the field of criminology, and its publication marked the emergence of criminology as an independent discipline within law.