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The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society is the first collection in English of writings by Italian jurist, sociologist, and cultural and literary critic Scipio Sighele (1868-1913). In post-unification Italy and internationally Sighele was an important figure in contemporary debates on such issues as popular unrest, the problematic borders between individual and collective accountability, the role of urbanization in the development of criminality, and the emancipation of women.
This volume draws an intricate portrait of a provocative thinker and public intellectual caught between tradition and modernity in fin de siècle Europe. It features new English translations of Sighele's seminal work, The Criminal Crowd, along with a selection of his later studies on criminality and on individual and group behaviour. Nicoletta Pireddu's introduction and annotation provide valuable context and insights on Sighele's contribution to the emerging field of collective psychology, on his relationships with his predecessors Cesare Lombroso and Enrico Ferri and with his French rivals Gustave Le Bon and Gabriel Tarde, and on the significant scientific, literary, and cultural developments of his time.
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
