This chapter examines for the first time all the articles and publications devoted to the anthrop... more This chapter examines for the first time all the articles and publications devoted to the anthropological characteristics of Southern Italians that appeared in the "Archivio di Antropologia Criminale" between 1909 and 1945.
This chapter seeks to shed light on the controversial legacy of Italian criminal anthropologist C... more This chapter seeks to shed light on the controversial legacy of Italian criminal anthropologist Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909) by assessing the influence of Lombrosian forensic psychiatrists in Italian court cases of murder in the first decades of the twentieth century. It is based on the quantitative analysis of seventy-three murder trials and on the qualitative analysis of one murder trial held at the Court of Assize of Turin between 1907 and 1932 in which the criminal anthropologist Mario Carrara (1866–1937), Cesare Lombroso’s son-in-law and his successor to the Chair of Forensic Medicine at the University of Turin, was invited as an expert witness to determine the liability of the defendant to punishment. Analysing a variety of sources such as textbooks, psychiatric assessment reports and final jury verdicts, the chapter concludes that the way in which Lombrosian forensic culture was embedded in textbooks and guides for the expert witness differed a great deal from how it came to the fore in the courtroom. While Lombrosian criminal anthropologists defended the concept of the born criminal in their scientific publications, they were more reluctant to do so in front of a jury. Legal procedures, the marginal influence of Lombroso’s theories on Italian legal culture, and the adherence of the majority of judges and jurists to the classical tradition of criminal law did not prevent Lombrosian forensic experts from using them in their psychiatric assessment reports, but they did limit the ways in which the latter could be voiced.
This chapter examines for the first time all the articles and publications devoted to the anthrop... more This chapter examines for the first time all the articles and publications devoted to the anthropological characteristics of Southern Italians that appeared in the "Archivio di Antropologia Criminale" between 1909 and 1945.
This chapter seeks to shed light on the controversial legacy of Italian criminal anthropologist C... more This chapter seeks to shed light on the controversial legacy of Italian criminal anthropologist Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909) by assessing the influence of Lombrosian forensic psychiatrists in Italian court cases of murder in the first decades of the twentieth century. It is based on the quantitative analysis of seventy-three murder trials and on the qualitative analysis of one murder trial held at the Court of Assize of Turin between 1907 and 1932 in which the criminal anthropologist Mario Carrara (1866–1937), Cesare Lombroso’s son-in-law and his successor to the Chair of Forensic Medicine at the University of Turin, was invited as an expert witness to determine the liability of the defendant to punishment. Analysing a variety of sources such as textbooks, psychiatric assessment reports and final jury verdicts, the chapter concludes that the way in which Lombrosian forensic culture was embedded in textbooks and guides for the expert witness differed a great deal from how it came to the fore in the courtroom. While Lombrosian criminal anthropologists defended the concept of the born criminal in their scientific publications, they were more reluctant to do so in front of a jury. Legal procedures, the marginal influence of Lombroso’s theories on Italian legal culture, and the adherence of the majority of judges and jurists to the classical tradition of criminal law did not prevent Lombrosian forensic experts from using them in their psychiatric assessment reports, but they did limit the ways in which the latter could be voiced.
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