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Cesare Lombroso
1. Professor Lombroso is a criminologist whose views, though not altogether correct, caused a lot of interest and made other people look into the problem of crime in a more scientific way. He is regarded as the father of the scientific study of criminals, or criminology. Lombroso studied at the universities of Padua, Vienna, and Paris, and later he became a professor of psychiatry and forensic medicine, a director of a mental asylum.
2. In an enormous book called The Criminal, he set out the idea that there is a definite criminal type, who can be recognized by his or her appearance. Some of what he said is difficult to believe. For example, he said that left-handed persons have a criminal instinct. Among the things he considered important were the shape of the head, colour of the hair, the eyes, the curve of the chin and forehead and if the ears stick out.
3. Lombroso's theories were widely influential in Europe for a time, but his emphasis on hereditary causes of crime was later strongly rejected in favour of environmental factors. Lombroso tried to reform the Italian penal system, and he encouraged more humane and constructive treatment of convicts through the use of work programs intended to make them more productive members of society.
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Lombroso tried to change the penal system in Italy stating that prisoners should be treated in a more human and constructive way through special work programs.
Lombroso was successful in many spheres among which one can name psychiatry, forensic medicine, criminology.
In his book «The Criminal» Lombroso distinguished a definite criminal type taking into consideration a criminal’s appearance and other hereditary features.
Lombroso is a famous Italian psychiatrist whose ideas on the origin of crime though being not always correct made a great impact on the development of criminology as science.
