During the twentieth century, he suggests, these gradually merged and changed to form the basis for what we recognise these days as criminology. The term criminology seems first to have been used by Paul Topinard, a Frenchman studying the body types of criminals, though the invention of the term itself is generally credited to an Italian academic lawyer, Raffaele Garofalo. Both are associated with the second stream of work identified above – which Garland names after the Italian scholar, Cesare Henry Fielding (1707–1754), novelist and author of Tom Jones, was also Chief Magistrate, based at Bow Street in London, and an early architect of formal policing. Sir Robert Peel (1788–1850), Home Secretary in 1829. In the face of considerable opposition Parliament passed the Metropolitan Police Improvement Bill which created the ‘new police’. Lombroso (see Chapter 6). This work, in various forms, was concerned with attempts to identify physical and other characteristics that set criminals apart. Such work varied from the measurement of physical characteristics such as head shape and the shape and size of the jaw and cheekbones, through to work that focused more upon the environmental conditions that produced criminality. Though, by and large, crude attempts to identify and measure characteristics that distinguish criminals from others have largely disappeared, Garland’s argument is that one very significant stream of criminology has continued to be concerned with identifying the individual, social and environmental factors that are associated with offending.

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