William Blake e William Butler Yeats

Antonielli, Arianna

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“…Lombroso coined the term scientific police in 1879 when he first sought this radical transformation: "We must [take] in the police the same step that Sadowa taught us to […] 65 It is no coincidence that Lombroso used a military metaphor 66 to talk about the need to train Italian police officers to the standards of modern English policemen. 67 His was, in fact, a genuine "call to arms" against those collectively called by many as an "army of crime", advancing dangerously in the increasingly populous cities. 68 This call was taken up by one of his pupils, Salvatore Ottolenghi, a professor of forensic medicine who, significantly, taught the first course in scientific policing [polizia scientifica] at the University of Siena.…”

Section: Looking For Identity: Inside the Criminal Worldmentioning

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Against the Rising Tide of Crime: Cesare Lombroso and Control of the “Dangerous Classes” in Italy, 1861-1940

Musumeci¹

2018

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In 1879, shortly after the publication of the first edition of his well-known and provocative book, L'uomo delinquente [published in English as Criminal Man (1911)], 1 Cesare Lombroso, in his "minor" work entitled Sull'incremento del delitto in Italia e dei mezzi per arrestarlo [ On the Increase of Crime in Italy and the Means to Stop it] warned readers that: "the tide of crime is increasingly rising, and threatens to submerge civilisation, if no one thinks about building a dam to stop it". 2 The battle against crime seemed to Lombroso's eyes unfair if fought without the necessary tools, like a defenceless man in the face of a natural disaster. Lombroso's opinion was, however, not an isolated one: after the unification of Italy in 1861, there had followed a period of emergency stemming from gradual but inexorable migration from the countryside to the cities, which became increasingly crowded with social outcasts that would populate the ranks of what would become known as the "dangerous classes". 3 This term came to refer to the great multitude of robbers, prostitutes, "subversives" and other common inhabitants of inner-city areas that, thanks to a certain literary imagery, became places of perdition and immorality. 4

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Section: Looking For Identity: Inside the Criminal Worldmentioning

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Against the Rising Tide of Crime: Cesare Lombroso and Control of the “Dangerous Classes” in Italy, 1861-1940

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2018

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William Blake e William Butler Yeats

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Against the Rising Tide of Crime: Cesare Lombroso and Control of the “Dangerous Classes” in Italy, 1861-1940

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