Cesare Lombroso (* 18 November 1836 in Verona; "† 19 October 1909 in Turin) was an Italian physician, professor of the judicial medicine and psychiatry.

Life

Lombroso was in-born 1836 Verona into a Jewish family. It studied professor in Padua, Vienna and Paris and became 1862 in Pavia, starting from 1876 was it a professor in Turin. As it overemphasized Augusts Comte, in whose tradition he stands, biological causes for mental disorders. The theoretical results of its studies meant besides that those population parts, which work criminally show a higher Prozentzahl of physical, nervous and mental anomalies, as the non-criminal. This anomalies are partial by degeneration to partly explain by Atavismus.

With its 1876 for the first time work L"´Uomo delinquente justified it a new theory in the Kriminologie, the transition from the doing to the author meeting right. Its theory of deliquente NATO - the born criminal was from the outset, as rightfully was it shown, disputed. The criminal one is described here as special type of the mankind, for which in the center of the crazy person and the wild one stand. In German-language countries its theories under the designation author typology were spread.

The direct relationship to the violent ancestors of today's humans steps Lombrosos thesis with some persons in its physical characteristics openly to light, thus. A certain head form or grown together brows is thereby the reference to a atavistische - with it lower and - Entwicklungsstufe. Thus outside characteristics point on the plants verwurzelten deeply to the criminal, who cannot be covered also by the appropriation of social behaviors.

No more the criminal act, but the criminal one than anthropologisch determined type becomes thereby the the subject of a new Pseudo-Wissenschaft, a forensischen Phrenologie. The practical reforms which it, wanted the Delinquenten, that was criminally born according to its theory, another kind of the punishment energized receive to let, than that, which was driven by the circumstances to its acts.

Lombroso is deserving despite its void theories as one the first modern Profiler.

In the contemporary discussion around the genius it represented the position that it concerns here a pathological, degenerative condition, which shows analogies to the and from the criminal arrangement is not in the long run too different.

1880 create Lombroso the Archivio di psichiatria. antropologia criminale e scienze penale.

With reference to Lombrosos theses, which it regarded in the course of its research for revised, led the national socialists during the 3. Realm in Germany obligation sterilizations with criminal ones and spirit patients through.

Works

• L'uomo delinquente. In RWS postage all'antropologia, alla giurisprudenza OD all discipline carcerarie, Turin, Bocca, 1876. (dt: The criminal in anthropologischer, medical and legal relationship, Hamburg 1889)

Literature

• Delia Fringesi: Cesare Lombroso. Turin, a AUDI, 2003, ISBN 88-06-13866-9
• Mary Gibson: Fount ton crime: Cesare Lombroso and the origins OF biological criminology. West haven, Conn., Praeger, 2002, ISBN 0-275-97062-0
• Klaus yard weber: The Sexualtheorie of the Cesare Lombroso. Munich, Univ. Diss., 1969

Related links

• Biography and list of works Lombrosos

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