So after browsing around for a bit, it's clear that according to Cesare:
Criminality is an inherited issue
There exists characteristics and deformities which exist on the criminal which can mark him out.
Cesare was incredibly influential, however his methodology lacked scientific rigor and much of it supplied the backbone for arguments in eugenics.
Some of the main problems was the assumptions made by Cesare: since he ignores the enviornment, the defects he ascribed to innate and inherited criminality, could have been explained by poor nutirition and other factors that are environmental.
Another concern is of which came first the criminality or the stigmatisation supplied by a society which ostracisied the 'deformed'.
Overall Cesare's methodology would have to be described as 'bad science' in which a lack of scientific rigor undermines the work. Of course there may be inherited dispositions or traits but Cesare did not account for the individual and their control over their actions. And by missing out this vital piece of the puzzle only further undermined his work.
Thanks for posting a name I wasn't famiiar with.
So after browsing around for a bit, it's clear that according to Cesare:
Criminality is an inherited issue
There exists characteristics and deformities which exist on the criminal which can mark him out.
Cesare was incredibly influential, however his methodology lacked scientific rigor and much of it supplied the backbone for arguments in eugenics.
Some of the main problems was the assumptions made by Cesare: since he ignores the enviornment, the defects he ascribed to innate and inherited criminality, could have been explained by poor nutirition and other factors that are environmental.
Another concern is of which came first the criminality or the stigmatisation supplied by a society which ostracisied the 'deformed'.
Overall Cesare's methodology would have to be described as 'bad science' in which a lack of scientific rigor undermines the work. Of course there may be inherited dispositions or traits but Cesare did not account for the individual and their control over their actions. And by missing out this vital piece of the puzzle only further undermined his work.
More info:
https://www.simplypsychology.org/lombroso-theory-of-crime-criminal-man-and-atavism.html
Thanks again for sharing
Dan