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History of criminology

In what year did biosocial criminology begin as a named modern field, distinct from Cesare Lombroso's original 1870s biological criminology, or in what year was the term itself first coined?

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In what year did biosocial criminology begin as a named modern field, distinct from Cesare Lombroso's original 1870s biological criminology, or in what year was the term itself first coined?