Scipio Sighele
Scipio Sighele (1868 - 1913) - Italian Criminologist and pioneer of the Psychology of the Crowd S.
It is born with Brescia in an big family from Italian lawyers. His/her father, Magistrate, will be prosecutor of the king with Palermo in the years following the Unité. At the conclusion of its secondary studies, it continues near the criminal jurist Enrico Ferri of the studies of right in company of the future members of the current lombrosien: Guglielmo Ferrero or even Adolfo Zerboglio. It devotes its tesi di laurea to the phenomenon of complicity.
But it is by two articles on criminal crowd, published in 1891 in the review of Lombroso, Archivio di Psichiatria , which it is made known. These two joined together articles will form the core of its major work Folla delinquente published shortly after and soon world best-seller at the time. The book quickly makes to the object of a translation in French under the title criminal Crowd . The work approaches the phenomena of association, the contagion and dismounts the mechanisms concerned within a crowd.
Sighele shows here leaning it irremediably criminal collective associations. Gustave the Good will be inspired largely by these ideas, without never giving an account of it, for its own work. Famous Sighele from now on widens its research in the field of collective psychology. Zola, Durkheim and Nordau in France will use its discoveries in the varied fields of the letters, sociology or the policy. Sighele publishes in France the psychology of the sects (1895) and of new editions of major sound opus Criminal Crowd where it will tend to amend its negative reading of crowd.
With the turning of the century, it becomes a militant credit in the Trentin, its area of origin, then under Austrian domination . Sighele forsakes little by little sociological work to be devoted to journalism and the political studies. Its ultimate work will concern the national question and the Irrédentisme of which it is made the theorist. Expelled by the Austrians of Trentin, because of its activism, he dies in Florence in 1913.
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