Lombroso

American

[lom-broh-soh, lawm-braw-saw] / lɒmˈbroʊ soʊ, lɔmˈbrɔ sɔ /

noun

Cesare 1836–1909, Italian physician and criminologist.

Lombroso British

/ lomˈbroːso /

noun

Cesare (ˈtʃeːzare). 1836–1909, Italian criminologist: he postulated the existence of a criminal type

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Talk with criminologists about biology, and one name comes up again and again: Cesare Lombroso.

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Born in 1835 in northern Italy, Lombroso trained as a physician.

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A collection of human specimens, including 712 skulls, is now preserved in the Cesare Lombroso Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Turin.

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Lombroso's work has been widely discredited.

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When the criminologist Michael Rocque was in graduate school, he worked closely with the late Nicole Hahn Rafter, a feminist criminologist who devoted much of her career to studying Lombroso's grim legacy, including his influence on the American eugenics movement.

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