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This page groups a criminology theory by where it sits within the wider body of theory that contains it. Wikipedia notes that criminology "directs its inquiries along three lines," the nature of criminal law, the causation of crime, and the control of crime, lines that many specific theories build directly upon. Browsing this way moves between a theory and the related theories nearby.

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1. Cesare Lombroso (Wikipedia)
Cesare Lombroso, Career section
Quote, Cesare Lombroso, Career section
He became professor of forensic medicine and hygiene at Turin in 1878. That year he wrote his most important and influential work, L'uomo delinquente (Criminal Man in English), which went through five editions in Italian
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