Criminality

Introduction : Crime & Criminality in the Nineteeth Century

Further Reading

 police training

 

Documents: Italian

Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) Drawings and photomontage of faces, in Archivio di psichiatria, antropologia criminale e scienze penali, vol.6 (1885)
Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) Craniometrical drawings, skulls, montage of criminal faces, in L’Uomo Delinquente I and II (1889)
Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) and Guglielmo Ferrero (1871-1842) La Donna delinquente (1893); English trans., The Female Offender (1895)
Salvatore Ottolenghi Images, some from Trattato di polizia scientifica I (1910)
Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909)

Crime: Its Causes and Remedies (1911)

 Introduction
Extract 1
Extract 2
Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) Faces of revolutionaries
Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) Drawings of noses from Lombroso’s Archivio di Psichiatria e Antropologia criminale (unknown dates)

 

Documents: French

E. Toulouse Photographs of Emile Zola’s hands and fingerprints from Emile Zola: Enqu è te m é dico-psychologique sur la superiorit é intell é ctuelle (1896)
JAE Lacassagne (1844-1921) Photographs of ears and of a gypsy (unknown source and date)
Alphonse Bertillon (1883-1914) Photographs of applied criminal anthropology (unknown source and date)
Table of criminal types (unknown source and date)
Sectional photographs of ears (unknown source and date)
Photography and the measurement of heads (unknown source and date)
Photograph of police recruits being trained (unknown source and date)
Picture of head (unknown source and date)

 

Documents: English

Psychiatrists
Alexander Morison (1779-1866) ‘Outlines of Lectures on Mental Diseases’ (1825; 2nd edition, 1826), in V Skultans ed., Madness and Morals: Ideas on Insanity in the Nineteenth Century (1975).
Henry Maudsley (1835-1918) ‘Body and Mind’ (1873), in V Skultans ed., Madness and Morals: Ideas on Insanity in the Nineteenth Century (1975). Extract 1
Extract 2
Extract 3
Charles Mercier (1852-1919) ‘Psychological Medicine’, in Lancet (6 August 1904)
Charles Mercier (1852-1919) Keeping the Public Informed (unknown date)

 

Composite Photography
Composite portraits of criminals, from Karl Pearson, The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton, II (1924)
Composite portraits of Jews, perhaps from Karl Pearson, The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton, II (1924)
Composite portraits of criminals and control composites, perhaps from Karl Pearson, The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton, II (1924)
Composite portraits (unknown dates)

 

Social Explorers and Commentators
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Illustrations and excerpts from the novels of Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers (1836-7); Oliver Twist (1837-9); A Christmas Carol (1843); Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-4); Little Dorrit (1855-7)
Henry Mayhew (1812-1887) London Labour and the London Poor, IV (1861-1862)

 

Government Reports
‘Appendix G’ of the Report of the Royal Commission on Constabulary (1839)
Report from the Departmental Committee On Prisons (Gladstone Committee Report ) (1895)

 

Crimes and Criminals
Images of the murderer James Rush (1849)
Punch responds to the ‘outbreak’ of garrotting (1862)
‘Blind Man’s Buff’, in Punch (1888); ‘The Great Whitechapel Puzzle”, in London (23 September 1889); ‘The Nemesis of Neglect’, in Punch, (29 September 1888); ‘Two more Whitechapel horrors’, in Illustrated Police News (October 1888)
Poster and cartoon referring to Jack the Ripper; various sources including the Illustrated Police News and police reports (1888)
Police Poster (30 September 1888)
Restraining criminals (unknown date)
Chronology of crime legislation (unknown date)

 

Documents: Pre 19th Century

Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) Drawings of noses, probably from Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe (Physiognomic Fragments for Furthering the Knowledge and Love of Man) (1775-1778); English trans., Essays on Physiognomy (1789-1798)

 

Documents: Miscellaneous

Definitions of ‘police’ in the Oxford English Dictionary (unknown date)

 

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