Crime, Theories Of
Most accounts of the rise of criminological inquiry indicate that it had its beginnings in mid-nineteenth-century developments in Europe, including the work of Cesare Lombroso, an I...
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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 a...
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Cesare Lombroso was a nineteenth-century Italian criminologist who proposed that there was a hereditary class of criminals who were biological throwbacks to a more primitive stage of human evolution. ...
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Crime, Theories Of
Cesare Lombroso
Cesare Lombroso