Cesare Lombroso

Italian physician who founded the positivist school of criminology, proposing that criminality was inherited and identifiable through physical characteristics, an approach called anthropological criminology. His core claim was later challenged by statistical analysis finding no significant physical differences between criminals and non-criminals. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/