An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the Nineteenth-Century United States, focusing in particular on the influence of phrenology.
The criminal was phrenology\'s ideal research and demonstration subject, and the cour.
In the United States, Phrenology shaped the production of medico-legal knowledge around crime, the treatment of the criminal within prisons and in public discourse, and sociocultural expectations about the causes of crime.
An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the Nineteenth-Century United States, focusing in particular on the influence of phrenology