Gustav Aschaffenburg was a German psychiatrist, born in Zweibrücken in 1866 and died in 1944, who is described as a pioneer in the fields of criminology and forensic psychiatry. He received his medical doctorate at the University of Strasbourg in 1890, worked as an assistant to Emil Kraepelin in Heidelberg and later taught at Halle and Cologne. In 1903 he published an early systematic study of the causes of crime, Das Verbrechen und seine Bekämpfung, discussing hereditary and social factors and dismissing Lombroso's idea of the born criminal. It appeared in English in 1913. He emigrated to the United States in the 1930s.
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Gustav Aschaffenburg (May 23, 1866 – September 2, 1944) was a German psychiatrist born in Zweibrücken.
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Gustav Aschaffenburg (May 23, 1866, September 2, 1944) was a German psychiatrist born in Zweibrücken.
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Aschaffenburg was a pioneer in the fields of criminology and forensic psychiatry.
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In 1903 he published an early systematic study on the causes of crime titled "Das Verbrechen und seine Bekämpfung", in which he discusses individual-hereditary and social-environmental factors
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