Ezechia Marco Lombroso also named Cesare Lombroso (an Italian who founded the field of criminal anthropology) is the father of Criminology as literature records.
Tracing the etymology of criminology, the professor of forensic medicine and hygiene at university of Turin. He was the first person to study crime and its followers, the criminals scientifically. In 1876, he coined the hypothesis (idea) that criminality is inherited and can be identified by the way someone looks and behaves. Hence, Lombroso’s (1876).