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Q - What was Cesare Lombroso's Principal Legacy To Criminology? The theories of Cesare Lombroso's have virtually all been discredited and superceded. There is no question that the man often singled out as 'father of modern criminology' managed to formulate fresh ideas that revolutionized criminological thought. His scientific theories centred around the idea that the criminal was a natural phenomenon, representing a distinct species, homo delinquas, and that the physical form of man was an outward manifestation of his character. Having been educated in medicine Lombroso became a specialist in the field of psychiatry. He describes how, during the post-mortem of a murderer called Villella, he could suddenly see "lighted up as a vast plain under a flaming sky, the problem of the nature of the criminal - an atavistic being". He then proceeded to devote himself to the explanation and amplification of this theory. In formulating his theory Lombroso...

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