Cesare Lombroso
Italian psychiatrist, physician, and criminologist (1835-1909)
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Cesare Lombroso was an Italian doctor and criminologist in the 1800s who became famous for developing theories about criminal behavior based on physical characteristics. His work had enormous influence on criminology and law enforcement, though his ideas are now widely rejected by modern science as pseudoscience.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1835-11-06
- Died
- 1909-10-19
- Works
- 48
Top works
- Criminal Man
- Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman
- Uomo Delinquente
- Crime Its Causes and Remedies
- Tre Tribuni Studiati Da un Alienista
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5
- Total plays
- 21
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Cesare Lombroso, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Article
Cesare Lombroso (/lɒmˈbroʊsoʊ/ lom-BROH-soh, US also /lɔːmˈ-/ 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 the founder of modern criminology by changing the Western notions of individual responsibility.
Lombroso rejected the established classical school, which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature. Instead, using concepts drawn from physiognomy, degeneration theory, psychiatry, and Social Darwinism, Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited, and that someone "born criminal" could be identified by physical (congenital) defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage or atavistic.