Enrico Ferri (criminologist)

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Enrico Ferri
Newspaper report on Enrico Ferri: The socialist MP Professor Enrico Ferri, who had caused a great scandal in the Italian Chamber on Montecitorio by insulting the southern Italians, was greeted with passionate rallies by the excited people when he came to Naples these days . The police had to rescue Ferri, whom the crowd was attacking, in a car, and when he was about to make a speech from the window, stones were thrown at him. The MP will undoubtedly unleash some more storms on his planned tour of southern Italy and Sicily.

Enrico Ferri (born February 25, 1856 in San Benedetto Po , † April 12, 1929 in Rome ) was an Italian criminologist and politician . Alongside Cesare Lombroso and Raffaele Garofalo, he formed the so-called “scuola positiva” (“positive school”) of Italian criminology and thus became one of the founders of modern criminology.

Life

Ferri was a professor at the University of Rome and at the Université nouvelle de Bruxelles (Brussels), and from 1886 to 1919 he was a socialist member of the Italian parliament . As one of the leading Italian socialists, he took part in London from 27.-31. 4th Congress of the 2nd International , which took place in London's Crystal Palace in July 1896 and which Alfred Kerr also attended as a correspondent for German newspapers. In his letter of August 9, 1896, Kerr describes Ferri as follows: The young professor Enrico Ferri came from Italy, an intelligent, slim giant with curly black hair, a long goatee and beautiful eyes. He is the authority among his compatriots who look more or less brigand-like. Later, in 1926, he joined Mussolini's fascists .

He coined the term “born criminal” (“delinquente nato”) based on Lombroso's theses of the “criminal man” (“L'uomo delinquente”). At the same time, however, Enrico Ferri also emphasized the importance of social factors for research into crime aetiology . Nevertheless, in his main work "The Crime as a Social Phenomenon" (first in 1883) - as a modern understanding of the title might suggest - he did not only deal with social causes of crime: Ferri understood criminal sociology to be a discipline that also examines physical characteristics and climatic factors. The German criminal lawyer Franz von Liszt , among others, oriented himself to this “broad” definition of the sociology of crime by Ferri .

Fonts (selection)

  • Studi dalla criminalità in Francia dal 1826 al 1878 , 1881

  • Socialismo e scienza positiva , 1894

  • Relazione sui discorsi inaugurali dei rappresentanti il ​​pubblico ministero negli anni 1884 e 1885 , 1886

  • Sociologia criminale , 4th edition, 1906

Secondary literature

Web links

Commons : Enrico Ferri  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alfred Kerr : Where is Berlin? Letters from the imperial capital. 1895–1900 (= Siedler pocket books. 75557). Edited by Günther Rühle . Goldmann, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-442-75557-3 , p. 689, comments on the letter of August 9, 1896.
  2. ^ Alfred Kerr: Where is Berlin located? Letters from the imperial capital. 1895–1900 (= Siedler pocket books. 75557). Edited by Günther Rühle. Goldmann, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-442-75557-3 , p. 189, letter of August 9, 1896.
personal data
SURNAME Ferri, Enrico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian criminologist and politician, member of the Camera dei deputati
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH San Benedetto Po
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1929
Place of death Rome