Cesare Lombroso's Theory Of Criminology

As people we have made many strives in society as a whole. A lot of them have changed society for the better but there is one thing that we have tried to make leaps and bounds in and a lot of the time we have fallen flat on our face. Criminology has only been around a few centuries but we have found many discoveries of what not to use as determinants of criminals. Such as but not limited to criminal women and women that are prostitutes. As there is no way they can all look the same. Cesare Lombroso is a criminologist that came out of the Italian school. While he has many different types of theories his most interesting one is the one on the subject of women. In this he said that you could not only tell a criminal from a normal women but also

In this type of school, at least to Lombroso, people were born criminals and thusly can be picked out by how they look compared to other people. But it also took the idea that it is all scientific and that if you figure out what, or in this case who, is criminal that you can eliminate that and then there will be no crime. Though he did say something that no one else did, that there were also people who were the occasional criminal. (Baumann Grau) Which if anything we can take that as

In his book The Female Offender he talks about several types of crimes two of the most prominent being hysterical criminals and crimes of passion. The things that are considered hysterical are things such as Arson and theft- it states that these often happen during their menstruation- and other things such as how they are great liars, even if they are lying about themselves, as seen in the example on page 223. But most importantly they just want to do this because it is fun. This is also seen in what he considers suicide- though written out it appears more like attempted suicide than anything- and false accusations. Both seemingly just to see what problems they can cause and because it appears fun for them (The Female Offender chapter