Alfredo Niceforo

Alfredo Niceforo (born January 23, 1876 in Castiglione di Sicilia , Catania , † March 2, 1960 in Rome ) was an Italian sociologist and criminologist .

Niceforo taught anthropology and sociology at the Universities of Lausanne and Brussels, was 1919/20 Professor of Sociology at the Sorbonne , 1920–1931 Professor of Statistics at the University of Naples and from 1931 Professor of Criminology at the University of Rome . - Niceforo was a supporter of the views of Cesare Lombroso , so declared crime biologically.

Fonts (selection)

• L'Italia barbara contemporanea (The barbaric Italy of the present), 1898
• Lo studio scientifico delle classi povere (The Scientific Study of the Poor Class ), 1907
• Antropologia delle classi povere (Anthropology of the poor classes), 1910
• Avventure e disavventure della personalità e delle umane società (the fortunes and misfortunes of personality and human societies), 1953
• Il gergo nei normali, nei degenerati e nei criminali (The language of normal people, degenerate people and criminals), Turin 1897, Biblioteca antropologico-giuridica 30 (reprinted Bologna 1972)
• Criminali e degenerati dell'inferno dantesco (Criminals and degenerates from Dante's hell ), Turin 1898, Biblioteca antropologico-giuridica 33
• Le génie de l'argot. Essai sur les langages spéciaux, les argots et les parlers magiques , Paris 1912

literature

• Franco Ferrarotti: Niceforo, Alfredo , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon, Vol. 1, Enke, Stuttgart ² 1980, p. 310.

Web links

• Literature by and about Alfredo Niceforo in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)