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If you’ve been following this column, you’ve noticed that I while I’m admittedly a tad flippant and snarky, I try to make it clear that in science, being wrong is perfectly OK. Because when someone ...

Titolo: La Vergine delle ossa. Cesare Lombroso indaga Genere: Gialli, Horror, Thriller, Noir Autore: Luca Masali Editore: Castelvecchi Anno di Pubblicazione: 2010 ...

On this day, Nov. 6, in 1835, Cesare Lombroso, regarded by some as the father of criminology, was born in Verona, Italy. Lombroso, a physician, former director of a mental asylum and a professor of ...

Where Cesare Lombroso, Italy’s famous criminologist and alienist left off, Dr. Jacob Eisenstadt, once a penniless Polish Jew, but now granted Italian citizenship by a special royal decree because of ...

In studying brain scans of criminals, researchers are discovering tell-tale signs of violent tendencies. WSJ's Jason Bellini speaks with Professor Adrian Raine about his latest discoveries. The ...

Do you have high cheekbones, full lips and large eyes? If you do, you might consider yourself lucky. However, to the 19th-century Italian criminologist, Cesare Lombroso, these "atavistic stigmata" ...

Murders are tragic but rare. But what drives some people to kill? Michael Mosley has been looking into research exploring the minds of murderers. In the 1870s Dr Cesare Lombroso, sometimes called the ...

Italy, 1876. The criminologist and physician Cesare Lombroso has just published L’uomo delinquente (The Criminal Man), a work that will define European understanding of criminal behaviour for several ...