... criminals are born with an innate potential for anti-social behavior. These people did not become criminals because of there environment. Lombroso believed the root cause of the problems that plagued these people were inherited and passed down to them in the human biology. It was at ... they were skeptical. At the international congress of criminal anthropology in 1889 French delegates opposed his theories. The French believed the origins of crime was related to social conditions rather then Lombroso theory of innate tendencies. With years of successive study, debate and contacts with t...

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