Criminal Man

Lombroso, Cesare; Gibson, M.E.; Rafter, Nicole

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“…Much like Lombroso (2006) who collected prisoner art and handicrafts, the prison museum in Buenos Aires also celebrates the creative and inspiring side of inmates. On display are numerous carvings and paintings that promote a rich Argentine nationalism alongside reverence for Catholic tradition (e.g.…”

Section: Religion and Governancementioning

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Penal tourism and a tale of four cities: Reflecting on the museum effect in London, Sydney, Melbourne, and Buenos Aires

Welch

2013

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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The resurrection of former prisons as museums has caught the attention of tourists along with scholars interested in studying penal tourism. This work expands on previous research on prison museums in Buenos Aires, Melbourne, and Sydney to include London. The analysis advances a cultural sociology of punishment by throwing critical light on three thematic couplings: prisons/ economics; religion/governance; and pain/penal progress. While reflecting on those unifying subjects, the discussion addresses the manner by which prison museums tell a historical tale about their host city with respect to punishment and social control. Observations and interpretations are situated within a growing literature on museum studies, penal spectatorship, and dark tourism.

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Section: Religion and Governancementioning

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Penal tourism and a tale of four cities: Reflecting on the museum effect in London, Sydney, Melbourne, and Buenos Aires

Welch

2013

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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“…Criminology has a long history when it comes to locating the causes of criminality in aspects of human identity. As is well known, Lombroso (1884/2006: 175) claimed that for the biologically inferior savage and atavistic races, including Negroes, Gypsies, Aborigines and Southern Italians, ‘crime is not the exception but almost a general rule’. As with habitual delinquents, various physical stigmata could be discerned which had a behavioural corollary in immorality and criminality.…”

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The trouble with culture: A speculative account of the role of gypsy/traveller cultures in ‘doorstep fraud’

Phillips

2017

Theoretical Criminology

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“…A utopian vision for a crime-free state, Cesare Lombroso’s L’uomo delinquente (1876), assimilated several threads of thinking about crime into the diabolical persona of the ‘born or instinctual criminal’. A ‘relic of a vanished race’, the born criminal was a ‘prehistoric savage’ ‘living amidst the very flower of European civilization’ (Lombroso, 2006[1876]: 24; Rafter, 1997: 106). Conceptualized as a throwback to an earlier phase of evolution, homo criminalis was ‘an atavistic being who reproduces in his person the ferocious instincts of primitive humanity and the inferior animals’ (Horn, 2003).…”

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‘Supposing that truth is a woman, what then?’: The lie detector, the love machine, and the logic of fantasy

Bunn

2019

History of the Human Sciences

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One of the consequences of the public outcry over the 1929 St Valentine’s Day massacre was the establishment of a Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory at Northwestern University. The photogenic ‘Lie Detector Man’, Leonarde Keeler, was the laboratory’s poster boy, and his instrument the jewel in the crown of forensic science. The press often depicted Keeler gazing at a female suspect attached to his ‘sweat box’, a galvanometer electrode in her hand, a sphygmomanometer cuff on her arm and a rubber pneumograph tube strapped across her breasts. Keeler’s fascination with the deceptive charms of the female body was one he shared with his fellow lie detector pioneers, all of whom met their wives – and in William Marston’s case, his mistress too – through their engagement with the instrument. Marston employed his own ‘Love Meter’, as the press dubbed it, to prove that ‘brunettes react far more violently to amatory stimuli than blondes’. In this article, I draw on the psychoanalytic concepts of fantasy and pleasure to argue that the female body played a pivotal role in establishing the lie detector’s reputation as an infallible and benign mechanical technology of truth.

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Criminal Man

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Penal tourism and a tale of four cities: Reflecting on the museum effect in London, Sydney, Melbourne, and Buenos Aires

Penal tourism and a tale of four cities: Reflecting on the museum effect in London, Sydney, Melbourne, and Buenos Aires

The trouble with culture: A speculative account of the role of gypsy/traveller cultures in ‘doorstep fraud’

‘Supposing that truth is a woman, what then?’: The lie detector, the love machine, and the logic of fantasy

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