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Intellectual Influences

This dimension names the earlier thinker or field whose ideas most directly influenced a specific criminology theory. Wikipedia notes that criminology draws on "sociologists, political scientists, economists, legal sociologists, psychologists, philosophers, psychiatrists, social workers, biologists, social anthropologists," any one of whom might supply the intellectual roots of a given theory. Browsing this way collects every theory influenced by the same thinker or field.

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Origin Era
1878 1
Intellectual Influences
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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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