This dimension groups criminology theories by the era in which they were first proposed. Wikipedia notes that criminology is "the interdisciplinary study of crime and deviant behaviour," a study whose theories have developed across every era since the field itself first took shape. Browsing by origin era lets a visitor compare theories that arose in the same period.
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1. Cesare Lombroso (Wikipedia)
Cesare Lombroso, Career sectionQuote, 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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