ABSTRACT
Arthur MacDonald’s Criminology was the first book-length text on the causes of crime published in the United States.1 It carried a short introduction by Cesare Lombroso himself, who was always ready to promote his ideas and no doubt attracted by MacDonald’s plan to establish a laboratory in Washington D.C. for the study of abnormality and criminality.2 In fact, Lombroso may have known MacDonald personally, for the latter claimed to have studied criminal anthropology in Turin, Italy, where Lombroso taught.
