ABSTRACT
In addition to his extreme gender-transgression, Lombroso's pederast can be distinguished by the profligacy of his criminal acts. He does not confine himself to robbery, theft, or political radicalism alone: he loves every sort of violent and property crime, "daring thefts", "atrocious assassinations", assaults, and murders. Lombroso prefers racconti where the Criminal Man's savagery is entangled with sexual aberrancy, usually with a hint of same-sex desire. Duncan argues that Lombroso's extensive taxonomy of criminal types was his way of looking down at the bodies of the lower classes, nonwhites, sexual minorities, and other powerless people from his own position of wealthy, white, northern European "normative embodiment". Lombroso was not alone in passion for classification of human types. At the International Prison Congress of 1888, delegates argued over whether the future of penology should favor the biological theories of Cesare Lombroso or the sociological theories of Gabriel de Tarde.
