Quotes 3 Flashcards
‘an atavistic being who reproduces in his person the ferocious instincts of primitive humanity and the inferior animals’
Lombroso
‘unrestrained desire for evil’
Lombroso
‘with the object of curing him, instead of punishing him’
Lombroso (Gina)
‘naturally manifest the most numerous / salient anomalies’
Lombroso
‘a few absorbing passions: impulsiveness / desire for revenge / licentiousness’
Lombroso
‘a desire to gratify personal vanity and to become notorious’
Lombroso
‘an honest man feels instinctive repugnance at the sight of a miscreant’
Lombroso
‘gross morphological characteristics’
Nye
‘a cornerstone in the science of modern technology’
Nye
‘a sociological or environmental interpretation of the origins of crime’
Nye
‘absurdity’
Lacassagne in Nye
‘stunning public reversal’
Nye
challenging Lombroso in 1889
Manouvrier / Toppard / Tarde / Broudel
‘unacceptability of Lombrosian theories to the legal community’
Nye
‘single greatest logical problem in Lombrosian doctrine lay in the use of a flawed concept of evolution’
Nye
‘a criminal degenerate was produced by an unhealthy social milieu that overstimulated him and encouraged him in drink & debauchery’
Charles Frere
‘determine the average man of a nation’
AQ
‘immorality and intemperate passions lead to crime’
AQ
‘not enough that a man may merely have the intention to do evil, he must also have the opportunity and the means’
AQ
‘causes of influencing crimes are so numerous and different, that it becomes almost impossible to assign to each its degree of importance’
AQ
