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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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 3, 2011 · 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 scale ...
- Paolo Mazzarello
- Funct Neurol. 2011 Apr-Jun; 26(2): 97-101 .
- 2011
- Apr-Jun 2011
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.
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Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) was an Italian criminologist, doctor and psychiatrist who devised a system of identifying criminality in individuals. He was an active and influential early researcher of claimed paranormal phenomena, notably with regard to the Italian medium Eusapia Palladino. Contents.
