Cesare lombroso argued that criminals are

Cesare Lombroso was born in 1835 in Verona in Italy. He was an Italian doctor who did research and wrote on a variety of topics, for example mental diseases, scientific ways to study corpses, and brain pathology.

But his most important work, and certainly the work that he’s best known for today, is the book “The Criminal Man” (“L’Uomo delinquente”).

Criminal Man, Theory of Atavism, and Degeneration

In “The Criminal Man”, first published in 1876, Lombroso developed his theory of criminal anthropology to explain why people commit crime.

His theory suggests that there are basic differences between offenders and non-offenders. More specifically, according to Lombroso, born criminals have certain physical characteristics or abnormalities that make them different.

Cesare lombroso argued that criminals are born

Cesare Lombroso called these abnormalities atavistic characteristics. Atavistic comes from the word “avatus”, which means ancestor in Latin. According to h