“Social malaise... demonic agitation:” anarchism according to the criminology of the French physician Alexandre Lacassagne

Abstract This article analyzes the way anarchism and its followers were understood in L’assassinat du président Carnot, by French physician Alexandre Lacassagne. A few months before book was published, June 1894, president of France, Sadi had been killed Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio. Lacassagne called upon to perform autopsy Carnot’s body a psychiatric examination The results these two analyses published aforementioned book. He made his observations on broader context criminological debates pursued late nineteenth century, which not restricted solely authors criminology.