ABSTRACT
Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904) was one of the leaders of the French criminologists who, in the late nineteenth century, undertook to discredit the biological positivism of the Lombrosians and, alternatively, develop a social understanding of the causes of crime. A judge, statistician, sociologist, and scholar, Tarde joined Alexandre Lacassagne (Chapter 35) in editing the Archives d’anthropologie criminelle, the French counterpart to Lombroso’s journal of criminal anthropology.
