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Wikipedia: Charles Buckman Goring

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The encyclopedia article on Charles Buckman Goring, the British prison medical officer whose 1913 statistical study The English Convict challenged Cesare Lombroso's theory of a born criminal type. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Buckman_Goring
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Wikipedia: Charles Buckman Goring
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