Cesare Lombroso
Cesare Lombroso · Science & Medicine
Physician and a founder of modern criminology and forensic psychiatry.
1835, Verona, Italy — 1909, Turin, Italy
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Cesare Lombroso is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physician and a founder of modern criminology and forensic psychiatry.
Cesare Lombroso was an Italian physician who founded the Italian school of positivist criminology, proposing controversial theories of the 'born criminal' that made him a central, if now largely discredited, figure in the history of criminology and forensic psychiatry. He was Jewish, born to a wealthy Jewish family in Verona. His emphasis on scientific study of the offender influenced later criminology despite the flaws in his conclusions.
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Physician and a founder of modern criminology and forensic psychiatry.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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