Containing a comprehensive introduction by Nicoletta Pireddu, this volume includes Sighele’s seminal work, The Criminal Crowd, as well as his formative studies on group behaviour.

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Tom Huhn
Introduction: "Alchemies of the Collective Soul: Scipio Sighele’s Crimes and Punishments" By Nicoletta Pireddu
A Note on the Texts and their Translations
The Criminal Crowd. An Essay on Collective Psychology
From The Criminal Couple. A Study in Morbid Psychology
From Sectarian Criminality
From The Intelligence of the Crowd
From The New Woman
From Modern Eve
From Tragic Literature
From In Art and in Science
Index

Scipio Sighele (1868-1913) was an Italian sociologist and criminologist. He studied Law at the University of Rome and taught at the Free University of Brussels from 1892 to 1902.