Criminologist Criminologist Cesare Lombroso ( Verona, November 6, 1835 - Turin, October 19, 1909) was a historical figure in modern criminology, and the founder of the Italian Positivist School of criminology. Lombroso rejected the established Classical School of criminology, which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature. Instead, using concepts drawn from Physiognomy, early Eugenics, Psychiatry and Social Darwinism, Lombroso's theory was that criminality was inherited, and that the born criminal could be identified by physical defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage, or atavistic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cesare Lombroso"
Edwin H. Sutherland ( 1893– 1950) was the first person to coin the phrase white-collar criminal. He first used the phrase in a speech to the American Sociological Association on December 27, 1939. In his 1949 monograph White-Collar Crime he defined a white-collar crime as "approximately as a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation." ...more on Wikipedia about "Edwin Sutherland"
James J. Fyfe ( February 16, 1942 - November 12, 2005) was a well-known criminologist and Police Training Director. The Brooklyn native died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey at age 63 after being treated for cancer for more than a year. ...more on Wikipedia about "James Fyfe"
Michael D. Maltz (born in Brooklyn, New York on December 18, 1938) is an emeritus professor at University of Illinois at Chicago in criminal justice, and adjunct professor and researcher at Ohio State University. In 1963, he earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Maltz was the editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology from 1995 to 2000. In 1985 Maltz was awarded the prestgious Lanchester Prize by the Operations Research Society of America, recognizing his book " Recidivism " as that year's "best contribution to operations research and the management sciences published in English". The book also won the Leslie T. Wilkins Award (for the Outstanding Book in the Fields of Criminology and Criminal Justice) . He had a Fulbright Scholarship in 1996 at El Colegio de Michoacán in Mexico. ...more on Wikipedia about "Michael Maltz"
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