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  • 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

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