Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview of Crime and Criminology

Positivism was the root of theories of character, such as phrenology. The largest contribution in early criminology was Cesare Lombroso’s theory of atavism. Positivist theories began to shift from biological to social explanations of crime with the Progressive Era (about 1890 to 1920). ................
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