Lombroso


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Lombroso

(Italian lomˈbroːso)
n
(Biography) Cesare (ˈtʃeːzare). 1836–1909, Italian criminologist: he postulated the existence of a criminal type
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Lom•bro•so

(lɒmˈbroʊ soʊ)

n.
Cesare, 1836–1909, Italian physician and criminologist.
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Nordau and Lombroso would so classify him, and qua criminal he is of an imperfectly formed mind.
That's how criminals are made for your Lombrosos to write their silly stuff about."
Once such researcher in the 19th century was Cesare Lombroso who theorised that some people in society had not evolved to the same level as others, and that 'criminal types' would have physical characteristics that allowed them to be identified.
At this point criminology should recognize its origins in Lombroso's gallery of faces, illustrating his application of colonial stereotypes to the European city's heart of darkness.
Some of the most discomfiting displays in the city are at the museum dedicated to the criminologist Cesare Lombroso, in which the yellowed wax death masks of prisoners, their criminal proclivities thought by Lombroso to be hard-coded in genetic and physical traits, appear in a macabre parody of a police line-up.
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(15) According to Lombroso and Ferrero (1903) and other anthropologists and scientists of the period, abnormal sexuality, namely the mere presence of sexual desire outside of procreation, becomes a sign of a criminal nature.