La génesis de la teoría lombrosiana y su influencia en el derecho penal desde el siglo XIX hasta nuestros días

DA RE, V., MACERI, S.

EPISTEME (PORTO ALEGRE)

Grupo Interdisciplinar em Filosofia e História das Ciências (GIFHC)

Año: 2022

1413-5736

Maceri, S., Da Re, V. ?La génesis de la teoría lombrosiana y su influencia en el derecho penal desde el siglo XIX hasta nuestros días?, artículo [escrito 2007] publicado en el homenaje a la profesora Anna Carolina Regner, "Episteme", Grupo Interdisciplinar em Filosofia e História das Ciências (GIFHC) da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), ISSN 1413-5736, 2022. The aim of the present work is to analyze Lombroso?s criminal anthropology, one of the most notorious examples of the biological reductionism of evolutionist basis from the XIX century. Its main assumption is that there is a variety of criminals, the born criminals, who are cavemen that coexist in civilized societies. With this difference settled, they could be distinguished by the presence of some morphological stigmata of their atavist condition, constituting the criminal type. If it is true that, time ago, this theory fell into disuse its influence on the criminal law survives in the laws that allow suspended sentences. In order to fulfil our aim, we will split this writing in two main sections. In the first one we will treat the influences on the Lombroso´s theory of the evolution and recapitulation (I). In the second part (II), we will treat the influence of Lombroso?s theory upon the criminal law of the XIX century until our days.