Scipio Sighele (24 June 186821 October 1913) was an Italian psychologist, sociologist, criminologist and a pioneer of mass psychology. He was born in

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. He studied law at the University of Rome and taught at the Free University of Brussels from 1892 to 1902. He is famous for the work ''The Criminal Crowd''. In this work, he mentioned Enrico Ferri, a contemporary colleague and friend, several times. They shared similar views on the influence of a crowd on its members. This fundamental idea was also described by Gabriel Tarde and

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. Sighele and Tarde debated how to determine and assign criminal responsibility within a crowd. Sighele died in Florence, aged 45.

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{{reflist Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome Academic staff of the University of Pisa Academic staff of the Université libre de Bruxelles Italian criminologists Italian sociologists Italian psychologists Writers from Brescia