Sunday, October 24, 2021

anatomical signs of criminality

A belief in anatomical signs of criminality can be detected in Egyptian writings 4,000 years old, in Homer's epics, in the Hippocratic and Galenic doctrines of ancient medicine, and in the Bible. Socrates was charged by a physiognomist with having a face that betrayed brutality. - @Biorealism

Whether crime was caused by biology or environment, Lombroso believed crime was often caused, it was not an expression of free & malicious intent...Lombroso and his school were allied with the reformatory movement...prisoners, whom they saw as victims of bad biology or society.

Crime & Human Nature: The Definitive Study of the Causes of Crime by James Q. Wilson, Richard J. Herrnstein

see also ломброзо / lombroso and Et tu, Cassius

а вот Tania Lombrozo, Department of Psychology, Prinston Uniersity - ain't it funny

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