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2 unusual facts about Cesare Lombroso


Nicole Hahn Rafter

The most recent ten years of Nicole Rafter’s publications have seen two trends, which are biological theories of crime with and introduction being published for Cesare Lombroso’s Criminal Women in 2004 and her research and writings on crime films and their influence in popular culture.

Arguable Rafer’s most influential contribution to feminist criminology has been her re-translation and resource guide to Cesare Lombroso’s La Donna Delinquente in which she reinterprets his argument of women being inferior and therefore committing crime at a lower level than that of male offenders.


Anthropological criminology

Although similar to physiognomy and phrenology, the term criminal anthropology is generally reserved for the works of the Italian school of criminology of the late 19th century (Cesare Lombroso, Enrico Ferri, Raffaele Garofalo).

Franz Joseph Gall

Gall's theories had an influence both on the Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso and on his French rival, Alexandre Lacassagne.

Leone Sinigaglia

Born in Turin into an upper-middle-class family, Sinigaglia knew the leading figures of thought, arts and science that lived in the city at the time, such as Galileo Ferraris, Cesare Lombroso, and Leonardo Bistolfi.


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