Scipio Sighele was an Italian psychologist, sociologist and criminologist and a pioneer of mass psychology. Born in Brescia in 1868, he studied law at the University of Rome and taught at the Free University of Brussels from 1892 to 1902. He is famous for his work The Criminal Crowd, in which he discussed how a crowd influences its members and which mentions his contemporary and friend Enrico Ferri several times. Sighele and Gabriel Tarde debated how criminal responsibility should be determined and assigned within a crowd. He died in Florence in 1913 at the age of 45.
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Scipio Sighele (24 June 1868 – 21 October 1913) was an Italian psychologist, sociologist, criminologist and a pioneer of mass psychology.
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Scipio Sighele (24 June 1868-21 October 1913) was an Italian psychologist, sociologist, criminologist and a pioneer of mass psychology.
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He is famous for the work The Criminal Crowd.
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They shared similar views on the influence of a crowd on its members.
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