Cesare Lombroso was an Italian criminologist born in Venice, Italy on November 18, 1836 to parents of Jewish decent. He wrote several books which were published including a book on antisemitism. Blaming Jewish people for their conditions and proposed assimilation as the answer for problem of prejudice. Also in his career he published other books that were highly derogatory ... during his life time. But it should be noted that Lombroso was not the first to explore this science. More then two millennia earlier in a fragment known as Problemata XXX, Aristotle or one of his disciples raised the ...

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