Who first discovered Criminology?  I have that it was someone in the
19th century called Cesar Eleengrozer (or something to that effect). 
Can you tell me where I can get more info on this please?  Thanks.

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Request for Question Clarification by till-ga on 03 May 2004 08:02 PDT

Are you maybe talking about Cesare Lombroso ?

"Their leading figure, Cesare Lombroso (1836?1909), professor of
psychiatry and anthropology at the University of Turin, sought through
firsthand observation and measurement of prison inmates to determine
the characteristics of criminal types."
from:
( Enycyclopedia Britannica Deluxe CD ROM Version 2003 )

By the way: I´m sure that criminology has not been discovered by a
single individual.

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Clarification of Question by shawnz-ga on 03 May 2004 13:44 PDT

The study of criminology began with someone by the name of Elengrozer
of the late 18th century who had a rigorous scientific understanding
of crime.  Can you find out any more about this?  Criminology as far
as I am aware has really been a study of science for the last 130
years.

(I've just started to study criminology and this was my first lesson
for which I'm trying to get more detail on).

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Request for Question Clarification by till-ga on 04 May 2004 06:03 PDT

I´m sorry but I can´t find aynthing about this man. Neither online nor
offline and I tried more than 10 search engines and the Encyclopedia
Britannica CD ROM Vesrion, the German Brockhaus and several Books.
Sorry, no chance.

till-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by aceresearcher-ga on 04 May 2004 09:43 PDT

Researcher till-ga is correct, the name is "Cesar Lombroso".

If you were supplied with this name, perhaps it's a test to see if you
can find the correct name on your own.

Regards,

aceresearcher

Hi, Till-ga has the right name. Not to sound too forward on you, but
you might want to check your class notes.

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Richard F. Wetzell, Inventing the Criminal: A History of German
Criminology, 1880?1945, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2000. Pp. xiv + 348. $ 39.95 (ISBN: 0-8078-2535-2).
 
Richard Wetzell has written a levelheaded book about a subject that
resists dispassionate analysis, the history of German criminology
through the Nazi period. In this engaging book, Wetzell conveys a vast
amount of information, drawn from a variety of disciplines, in an
accessible style. To retain his scholarly detachment, Wetzell favored
the collection of historical data over their critical analysis. Given
the nature of his subject, this attitude is both understandable and
welcome, even though it places some concomitant limitations upon the
book's ambitions and scope. 1
      Wetzell traces the history of German criminology from its
beginnings in the late nineteenth century, marked among other things
by the reception of Lombroso's work on "criminal man" (first published
in 1876) and Franz von Liszt's foundation of the (still-extant)
Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft in 1881, through
the end of the Nazi period.

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http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/21.3/br_12.html

There was no one promenent before Ceaser Lombroso. He is the father of
modern Criminology.

webadept-ga

Nothing very similar sounding, but you might check the name Cesare
Beccaria, also noted in the literature as the "father of criminology."
http://www.methodist.edu/criminaljustice/criminologylinks.htm
http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/beccaria.htm

I agree with my colleagues that no one figures more prominently than
Lombroso.  It would certainly be kind of you to let us know who this
turns out to be.  If four researchers (and probably more) couldn't
find this gentleman, we'd better turn in our badges. ;-)