Scipio Sighele
Born	(1868-06-24)June 24, 1868 Brescia
Died	October 21, 1913(1913-10-21) (aged 45) Florence

Scipio Sighele (24 June 1868 – 21 October 1913) was an Italian psychologist, sociologist, criminologist and a pioneer of mass psychology. He was born inBrescia. He studied law at theUniversity of Rome and taught at theFree University of Brussels from 1892 to 1902.

He is famous for the workThe Criminal Crowd.^[1] In this work, he mentionedEnrico 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 byGabriel Tarde andGustave le Bon. Sighele and Tarde debated how to determine and assign criminal responsibility within a crowd.^[2]

Sighele died in Florence, aged 45.

• The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society. University of Toronto Press. 2018 [Reissued].ISBN 978-1-4875-1735-9.
• L'intelligenza della folla (in Italian). Turin: Bocca. 1903.

• 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
• 1868 births
• 1913 deaths

• Articles with hCards
• CS1 Italian-language sources (it)