Alexandre Lacassagne

Alexandre Lacassagne (August 17, 1843 – September 24, 1924) was a French physician and criminologist who was a native of Cahors. He was the founder of the Lacassagne school of criminology, based in Lyon and influential from 1885 to 1914,^[1] and the main rival to Lombroso's Italian school.^[1]

Lacassagne wrote "Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves".^[2]

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^ Alexandre Lacassagne, Archives d’anthropologie criminelle de médecine légale et de psychologie normale et pathologique, Lyon, 1913, p. 364. « Disponible en ligne sur Criminocorpus » [archive] (consulté le 27 février 2009)

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[2] Alexandre Lacassagne, Archives d’anthropologie criminelle de médecine légale et de psychologie normale et pathologique, Lyon, 1913, p. 364. « Disponible en ligne sur Criminocorpus » [archive] (consulté le 27 février 2009)

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