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Cesargon Lombroso was an Italian criminologist who stranded the Italian positive(p) School of Criminology. Lombroso is famed for rejecting the Classical School of Criminology, which believed people have the free will in making decisions while committing crime and that the punishment must be alert and certain to deter people from crime. Lombroso Italian Positivist School considered phrenology and fool had many influences on who would be a criminal, another popular end point is the atavistic born(p) criminal which states that criminality is inherited and that some unmatched is a born criminal. In this paper I present Lombroso work and how his theories could commit a criminal by their outer physical traits. These early ideas and beliefs indicated that biota had a major influence on who would be a born criminal in society. Life and Times of Cesare LombrosoCesare Lombroso was an Italian criminologist who founded the Italian Positivist School of Criminology. He was born November 6, 1835 in Verona, Italy to a wealthy Judaic family and died October 19, 1909. His father was Aronne Lombroso, he was a tradesman from Verona and his mother Zeffora Levi was from Chieri near Turin. Lombroso examine at the University of Padua, Vienna and Paris and was the professor of psychiatry at the University of Pavia. In 1859 he became an army surgeon for the Italian army and conducted a direct called the Southern Question. He became the director of mental health at Pesaro Asylum in 1871 and in 1876 became the professor of forensic medicine at the University of Turin. In 1896 became a professor of psychiatry and anthropology in 1906 at the very(prenominal) university. Famous individuals such as Cesare Becarria and Charles Darwin laid the prat for Lombroso work an... ...populations. criminological theories that are corresponding to Lombroso theory are not widely found in current day criminology. Mainstream theories such as the labeling theory, and broken windows are popular today compared to Lombroso theory during his time. Lombrosos theory has been noticeably disoriented within mainstream theories. It can be said that Lombroso work has been forgotten just now two books in the mid 1990s on female offenders and one entitled Man Genius prove that his work has not been forgotten. Cesare Lombrosos accomplishments are not because of his own theories, but he laid the foundation for future criminologist. His imagination ignited new criminological thinking that has lasted all over a 100 years. Lombrosos theory is biological and that is a portal that was opened in one of the worlds first theories to watch the causality of crime within the criminal.