Raffaele Garofalo

Raffaele Garofalo ( born November 18, 1851 in Naples, † April 18, 1934 in Naples) was an Italian lawyer and criminal law teacher.

The young Baron struck after graduating in law a judge the runway and climbed it on to the President of the Supreme Court in Naples. In addition, he habilitated in 1891 at the University of Naples for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law. In 1909 he was appointed a member of the Italian Senate.

In addition to Cesare Lombroso and Enrico Ferri Garofalo was instrumental part in the founding of the Italian positivist criminal school of the 19th century, the " Scuola del positiva diritto penale ". Through his book Criminologia he made the term " criminology " internationally known. The word " criminology " itself is a French anthropologist Paul Topinard attributed, is said to have first used the term in 1879. Garofalo presented in his book, the concept of " natural crime " before. By this he meant the violation of the average level of compassion and honesty. As he held the disposition of this innate and not educable, he said in his book Contro la corrente for the death penalty.