Somatotyping, antimodernism, and the production of criminological knowledge

Criminology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 805-833

  Rafter, Nicole ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

Author keywords

Antimodernist science; Earnest A. Hooton; Eugenics movement; History of criminology; Somatotyping; William Herbert Sheldon

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349002505     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2007.00092.x     Document Type: Article

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