Author:
Rafter, Nicole Hahn, 1939-
Imprint:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.
Descriptionxi, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note: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 Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-270) and index.
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