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If he had said “No” he would have been guilty of perjury and risk jail. Yet he did not want to admit that he and his company had bribed many legislators to obtain favorable legislation which was a crime then. Congress changed the system so that wealthy men and companies could legally make “campaign donations”.


Cesare Lombroso
Cesare Lombroso
  • Born: November 6, 1835
  • Died: October 19, 1909
  • Nationality: Italian
  • Profession: Psychologist

Cesare Lombroso was an Italian criminologist, phrenologist, physician, and founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology. Lombroso rejected the established classical school, which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature. Instead, using concepts drawn from racism, physiognomy, degeneration theory, psychiatry, and Social Darwinism, Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited, and that someone "born criminal" could be identified by physical (congenital) defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage or atavistic.