ABSTRACT
Lombroso proposed the bodies of born criminals with their latent social dangerous. He foregrounded the continuities between the readings of the criminal body, proverbial wisdom and the earlier discourses of physiognomy that purported to find the signs of interior intellectual and moral states on the body's surfaces. This chapter further explores the roles played by tools, techniques, manuals and other elements of practice in the elaboration and consolidation of a criminological science. It provides difficulty in the study of the living criminal. Criminals did not present themselves at the door of Lombroso's laboratory, even when they are offered with cash. The chapter discusses the ancient and medieval world Antonini, as the founder of physiognomic observation and moved on to the Galenic medicine, medieval judicial astrology, palmistry, metoposcopy and Renaissance schools of physiognomy. It focuses on a complementary fashion for the production of the criminologists on medico-legal expert and to diagnose social dangers.
