Word: criminologists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...luckless person who complains that "everything happens to me" may be stating a scientific fact. Many victims of crime practically ask for it: they stand in the path of the crime and "tempt" the criminal. So said a noted criminologist last week. This theory is not new to science, but it was advanced with new force by Dr. Hans von Hentig in a new book, The Criminal and His Victim (Yale University Press...
...Criminologist Writes Play...
...average criminologist, says Reik contemptuously, the mind is "a minutely mapped-out police district." Reik thinks that the symptoms which a detective usually takes for signs of guilt - e.g., agitation, blushing, stuttering, lying - may be nothing more than the natural reactions of an innocent man with an ugly subconscious or a sensitive endocrine system. The psychoanalyst believes that detectives generally would be more successful if they let psychology alone and concentrated on material clues...
Died. Dr. Gina Lombroso Ferrero, 73, crusading intellectual, Italy's first woman physician, exiled by the Mussolini regime in 1930; in Geneva, Switzerland. Daughter of famed Criminologist Cesare Lombroso, widow of Historian Guglielmo Ferrero, quiet, pleasant Gina was best known for her savage and scholarly works on sociology and female psychology (The Soul of Woman). She held that women could properly function only as domestic companions, linked this theory with her main sociological conviction - the evil of the machine...
...SKELETONS RATTLE- Frederick C. Davis- Crime Club ($2). The arrival of newlywed Criminologist Hatch and his bride in a sleepy Pennsylvania village precipitates a hecatomb. Four murders and two natural deaths, all linked in the same grisly puzzle, make it a real busman's honeymoon. A shrewdly plotted and super-shivery affair, with logical detecting and a leaven of dese-dose-&-dem humor...