Lombroso

He dedicated Degeneration to the Italian Jewish physician Cesare Lombroso, who pioneered a criminal anthropology in which bodily deformations or so-called atavisms—big jaws, low brows, even tattoos—identified the delinquent.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

He dedicated Degeneration to the Italian Jewish physician Cesare Lombroso, who pioneered a criminal anthropology in which bodily deformations or so-called atavisms—big jaws, low brows, even tattoos—identified the delinquent.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

For some comments on Weininger in Italy and his relationship to Lombroso, see Nancy A. Harrowitz, Antisemitism, Misogyny and the Logic of Cultural Difference: Cesare Lombroso and Matilde Serao Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994, especially 77–80.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

For some comments on Weininger in Italy and his relationship to Lombroso, see Nancy A. Harrowitz, Antisemitism, Misogyny and the Logic of Cultural Difference: Cesare Lombroso and Matilde Serao Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994, especially 77–80.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

Born into a well-to-do Sephardic family in Verona, Lombroso believed that “born criminals” could be recognized through eugenic-based characteristics of “biological determinism” such as handle-shaped ears, hawklike noses, and insensitivity to pain.

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

Does this Lombroso-like theory stands also with Al Quaeda?

Walk in My Shoes: Inside the teen brain 2009

Lombroso, an Italian physician, described the insight that led to his theory of innate criminality and to the profession he established--criminal anthropology.

Meme from Elaine Lisa Hirsch 2008

Influenced by the theories of the forensic psychologist Cesare Lombroso 18351909, Darwinian psychiatrists believed that physical characteristics, detectable by the trained eye, indicated a predisposition to madness and criminality.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

No single scholar of criminality since Cesare Beccaria a century earlier exercised as much influence as Lombroso did in the late nineteenth century.

Archive 2008-08-01 Dan Ernst 2008

Influenced by the theories of the forensic psychologist Cesare Lombroso 18351909, Darwinian psychiatrists believed that physical characteristics, detectable by the trained eye, indicated a predisposition to madness and criminality.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008