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Lombroso

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

noun

  1. Cesare 1836–1909, Italian physician and criminologist.


Lombroso British  
/ lomˈbroːso /

noun

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

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Lombroso dissected the corpses of people with criminal records, examined the feet of sex workers, and visited prisons to measure the dimensions of people's heads.

From Salon Jan. 31, 2023

Saleh-Hanna sees that as a fundamental problem in the field, one going all the way back to Lombroso.

From Salon Jan. 31, 2023

Where Lombroso used calipers and craniographs, Kosinski has been using neural networks to find patterns in photos scraped from the internet.

From The Guardian Jul. 7, 2018

Lombroso would have approved, but they have little appeal to the liberal mind.

From The Guardian Jun. 13, 2013

The great are nearly as likely to suffer illusions, pathological hallucinations, and aberrations as the humble remainder of mankind, or, according to Lombroso a good deal more so.

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