Cesare Lombroso: Methodological ambiguities and brilliant intuitions

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-26

  Gatti, Uberto ^a   Verde, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biological theories of crime; Cesare Lombroso; History of criminology

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AMBIGUITY; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; CRIME; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; CRIMINOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DELINQUENCY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHICS; EVOLUTION; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTUITION; METHODOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; OFFENDER; PERSONALITY; POLITICS; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC OPINION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SOCIAL ASPECT; THEORY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; CRIMINALS; CRIMINOLOGY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 84855360169     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: 18736386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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