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Cesare Lombroso (/ l ɒ m ˈ b r oʊ s oʊ / lom-BROH-soh, US also / l ɔː m ˈ-/ lawm-, Italian: [ˈtʃeːzare lomˈbroːzo, ˈtʃɛː-,-oːso]; born Ezechia Marco Lombroso; 6 November 1835 – 19 October 1909) was an Italian eugenicist, criminologist, phrenologist, physician, and founder of the Italian school of criminology. He is considered ...
Feb 8, 2023 · Lombroso became known as the father of modern criminology. He was one of the first to study crime and criminals scientifically, Lombroso’s theory of the born criminal dominated thinking about criminal behavior in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Cesare Lombroso (born Nov. 6, 1835, Verona, Austrian Empire [now in Italy]—died Oct. 19, 1909, Turin, Italy) was an Italian criminologist whose views, though now largely discredited, brought about a shift in criminology from a legalistic preoccupation with crime to a scientific study of criminals.
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Jul 3, 2011 · Summary. Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909) was a prominent Italian medical doctor and intellectual in the second half of the nineteenth century. He became world famous for his theory that criminality, madness and genius were all sides of the same psychobiological condition: an expression of degeneration , a sort of regression along the phylogenetic ...
- Paolo Mazzarello
- Funct Neurol. 2011 Apr-Jun; 26(2): 97-101 .
- 2011
- Apr-Jun 2011
Feb 14, 2019 · This article was first published by History Extra in 2015. Cesare Lombroso's theory of the 'born criminal' helped shape modern criminology. Discover everything you need to know about him, and his influence on today’s study of crime.
May 21, 2018 · The Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) devised the now-outmoded theory that criminality is determined by physiological traits. Called the father of modern criminology, he concentrated attention on the study of the individual offender.
Jun 25, 2013 · No one in the history of criminology has a reputation like Cesare Lombroso. Lombroso was a multifaceted scholar who looked at virtually every aspect of the lives, minds, bodies, attitudes, words, lifestyles, and behaviors of criminal offenders in hopes of finding the definitive cause of crime.
