Brilliant and insanity. A criminal person. Lombroso Ch.

Cesare Lombroso is an outstanding Italian psychiatrist and forensic scientist who devoted life to the study of the nature of the madness and psychology of the criminal. He was the first to put forward the idea of ​​crime as an innate property of character, drawing the attention of forensics not to the crime, but to the inner world of it. He developed a special formula according to which, on the basis of measuring the skull and other parts of the body, one can determine the degree of tendency to a person to a criminal act; classified a variety of manifestations of asocial behavior in women; He studied the connections between genius and mental anomalies with examples of biographies of outstanding personalities. Despite the peremptory of judgments and sometimes fantastic conclusions, Lombroso works are read today with great interest. In these works, the reader can get acquainted with numerous criminal stories of the past, unexpected statistical calculations, curious facts from the life of famous people, and, finally, plunge into the world of the clinical and psychoanalytic thought of the nineteenth century.