Der Roman eines geborenen Verbrechers (The Novel of a Born Criminal) is a German-language autobiographical text attributed to a prisoner identified only as Antonino M., presented as the self-written life story of a convicted criminal. The text belongs to a genre of criminological literature popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when the new science of criminology — associated with figures like Cesare Lombroso — prompted interest in first-person criminal narratives.
As a documentary rather than imaginative text, its value lies in its historical and sociological interest rather than literary artistry. Download this free public-domain EPUB to encounter an unusual primary document from the history of European criminology.