Creating born criminals / Nicole Hahn Rafter.
Publication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.Description: xi, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0252022378 (acidfree paper)
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- HV6047 .R33 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-270) and index.
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.