CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cesare Lombroso, Enrico Ferri, Precocious Puberty
23 Feb 2018
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Considered to be the father of italian positivist criminology. Used scientific methodology to study criminals primarily gathering physiological info. Lack of home control through ignorance, illness, father away too much, mother working, street life. Pregnancy, venereal disease, delayed puberty or premature puberty, boyish type of physique in girl, defective bladder control. Carious teeth, defective hearing, excessive enlargement of thyroid and defective vision. Lombroso developed the concept of criminal as atavist . An atavist was considered to be a throwback to primitive man. The concept contributed to his idea of the born criminal. Evidence from the new field of anthropology, which produced reports on. Not as advanced and civilized as europeans. Evidence was primarily from reporting of untrained colonial administrators and missionaries who saw not differences, but inferiority. His studies and measurements of criminals in prison. Student of lombroso who extended his work, primarily from 1881 to 1885. Psychic anomaly- improper development of altruistic sensibility (eugenics would adopt this)
