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Who among the following is the founder of the Positivist School of Criminology?

Cesare "Lombroso", the Italian physician who advanced the theory of the 'born criminal' identifiable by physical stigmata, is regarded as the founder of the Positivist…

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Who among the following is the founder of the Positivist School of Criminology?

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Cesare "Lombroso", the Italian physician who advanced the theory of the 'born criminal' identifiable by physical stigmata, is regarded as the founder of the Positivist School of Criminology. "Austin" is a legal positivist in jurisprudence, while "Merton" (strain theory) and "Becker" (labelling theory) belong to later sociological criminology.

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