Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society - The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society

Containing a comprehensive introduction by Nicoletta Pireddu, this volume includes Sighele’s seminal work, The Criminal Crowd, as well as his formative studies on group behaviour.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Tom Huhn
Introduction: "Alchemies of the Collective Soul: Scipio Sighele’s Crimes and Punishments" By Nicoletta Pireddu
A Note on the Texts and their Translations
The Criminal Crowd. An Essay on Collective Psychology
From The Criminal Couple. A Study in Morbid Psychology
From Sectarian Criminality
From The Intelligence of the Crowd
From The New Woman
From Modern Eve
From Tragic Literature
From In Art and in Science
Index

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By Scipio Sighele
Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Nicoletta Pireddu
Translated by Nicoletta Pireddu and Andrew Robbins
With a Foreword by Tom Huhn

Summary

Containing a comprehensive introduction by Nicoletta Pireddu, this volume includes Sighele’s seminal work, The Criminal Crowd, as well as his formative studies on group behaviour.

Product details

• Authors: Scipio Sighele, Scipio/ Huhn Sighele
• Assisted by: Nicoletta Pireddu (Editor), Robbins Andrew (Translation), Andrew Robbins (Translation)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781487503185
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0318-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library; Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Libra; Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library; Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Libra
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education