The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society / / Scipio Sighele; ed. by Nicoletta Pireddu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
• VerfasserIn: Sighele, Scipio,
• MitwirkendeR: Huhn, Tom,; Pireddu, Nicoletta,
• TeilnehmendeR: Huhn, Tom.; Robbins, Andrew.
• HerausgeberIn: Pireddu, Nicoletta,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Foreword --; Introduction: Alchemies of the Collective Soul: Scipio Sighele's Crimes and Punishments --; A Note on the Texts and Their Translations --; 1. The Criminal Crowd: An Essay on Collective Psychology --; 2. From The Criminal Couple: A Study in Morbid Psychology --; 3. From Sectarian Criminality --; 4. From The Intelligence of the Crowd --; 5. From The New Woman --; 6. From Modern Eve --; 7. From Tragic Literature --; 8. From In Art and in Science --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487517359; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610130; 9783110606485; 9783110606799
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487517359
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Scipio Sighele; ed. by Nicoletta Pireddu.

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.