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What Can Crime Museums Teach Us About Crime?

In recent decades, crime museums have become popular sites for ‘dark tourism’. But given the nature of the exhibits in these museums, their existence is often seen as controversial. In…

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Inside Lombroso's Museum

Throughout his lifetime, Cesare Lombroso collected skulls, skeletons, brains, wax models and various other types of objects as part of his research into the nature of criminal behaviour. This…

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Cesare Lombroso: Father of Modern Criminology

Dr Matthew Bacon joins us from Lombroso’s Museum of Criminal Anthropology at the University of Turin, Italy, to talk about the early history of the science of criminology, the problematic…

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