Cesare Lombroso
Definition
Italian army physician and psychiatrist, usually credited as the founder of the positivist school, author of L'Uomo Delinquente.
Related terms
- Atavism
- Lombroso's concept that born criminals were evolutionary throwbacks to a more primitive human type, identifiable by physical stigmata. The concept is scientifically...
- Born Criminal
- Lombroso's term (reo nato) for an offender whose criminality is innate and identifiable through physical stigmata rather than produced by choice or...
- Criminal Anthropology
- The 19th century study of offenders through physical measurement, comparing skull shape, facial features, and body form across criminal and non-criminal populations.
- Criminal Sociology
- Ferri's term for a criminology that weighs physical, anthropological, and social factors together, giving social conditions equal standing with biology.
- Enrico Ferri
- Lawyer and student of Lombroso who built a criminal sociology combining anthropological, physical, and social causes of crime.
- Natural Crime
- Garofalo's category of conduct that offends the universal moral sentiments of pity and probity, regardless of whether a given penal code happens...
- Raffaele Garofalo
- Magistrate credited with coining the word criminology, author of the natural crime concept built on pity and probity.