Biocriminology
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Biocriminology
a school of bourgeois criminology which explains the existence of crime on biological grounds. The origin of such theories in the second half of the 19th century is linked with the name of the Italian physician and psychiatrist C. Lombroso, originator of the theory of the hereditary criminal.
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