Researched and studiedcriminals' bodies to determine these characteristics
Some of Lombroso's ideas:
Thick lips - violence
Hooked nose - murder
Flattened nose - thief
Atavism - Criminals are atavistic meaning they are people with more primitive instincts. Meaning that people were born criminal
Lombroso believed that society was split in half - criminal and normal, them and us
Criminalad category where a persons criminally is due to environment rather than biology
The female offender (1897)
For men to be criminal they must have more than 5 physical anomalies
For women to be criminal they can have less than5 physical anomalies
However female criminals were much more rare and had not ‘degenerated’ in the same way as men because they had endured less due to the inactive nature of their lives.