The criminal crowd and other writings on mass society

"The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society is the first English collection of writings by Italian jurist, sociologist, cultural and literary critic Scipio Sighele. Sighele is largely responsible for providing post-unification Italy with a new outlook on issues ranging from the blurr...

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Main Author: Sighele, Scipio 1868-1913 (Author)
Contributors: Pireddu, Nicoletta (Editor) ; Robbins, Andrew (Translator) ; Huhn, Tom 1957- (Translator)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto Buffalo London University of Toronto Press [2018]
In:Year: 2018
Online Access: Table of Contents
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Keywords:
Crime
Criminal Psychology
Criminals
Crowds
Social Psychology
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Massenpsychologie > Sozialpsychologie > Kriminalpsychologie
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Summary:"The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society is the first English collection of writings by Italian jurist, sociologist, cultural and literary critic Scipio Sighele. Sighele is largely responsible for providing post-unification Italy with a new outlook on issues ranging from the blurring line between individual and collective accountability, the role of urbanization in the development of criminality, and the emancipation of women. This work draws a multifaceted portrait of a provocative thinker and public intellectual caught between tradition and modernity during the European fin de siècle. Containing a comprehensive introduction by the editor, The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society includes Sighele's seminal work, The Criminal Crowd, as well as his formative studies on group behaviour. Nicoletta Pireddu contextualizes Sighele's contribution to the so-called 'age-of crowds,' from the fierce polemic with his French rivals Gustave LeBon and Gabriel Tarde to the scientific, literary, and cultural developments of his conceptualization of mass behaviours as a legitimate object of psychological investigation into a new century."--
Physical Description:lxxxi, 425 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
ISBN:9781487503185
1487503180