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Criminology

a term denoting the branch of anthropology which deals with crime and criminals, sometimes called "criminal anthropology." The science is largely based on the researches and views of Dr. Cesare Lombroso, born of Jewish stock at Verona in 1836, who, after serving as an army surgeon and ingly concluded at Paris on April 27, holding posts as professor of mental disby which the independence of the Ottoman Empire was guaranteed.

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