The study of criminal psychology has been given a number of names including forensic psychology, legal psychology and criminal psychology but under all these titles, psychologist have aimed to gain knowledge of criminal behaviour in order to both investigate and absolve crimes and ultimately to prevent them. ... It is this which has seen Lombroso hailed as "The father of modern criminology"(Shaffer 1976) as his further studies have paved the way for most disciplines within modern criminological research. ... Further studies into this field however, have offered conflicting results. ... Th...

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Lombroso's works were influenced by the studies of Charles Darwin the famous British scientist who was the founding father of the modern evaluation theory. ... With the information gathered from both subjects Lombroso began a study of his own. Lombroso began studying the bodies of renowned criminals unlike the studies conducted by the criminologist who believed in the classical school. ... One group of people he studies he named the atavist. ... Lombroso believed the root cause of the problems that plagued these people were inherited and passed down to them in the human biology. ...

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