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Franz Exner
Austrian criminologist (1881-1947) · Austria · On the map · Academics · Died at 66
Franz Exner was an Austrian-German criminologist and criminal lawyer. Alongside Edmund Mezger, Hans von Hentig and Gustav Aschaffenburg, he was a leading and in some respects a representative of the German school of criminology in the first half of the twentieth century.
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During the 1920s and 1930s, Exner produced work on the interface between Criminology and Sociology. He became a controversial figure among subsequent generations because of the extent to which during the 1930s and 1940s his ideas evolved towards National Socialist ideology, notably with regard to so-called "criminal biology", which, by more recent criteria imputed excessive weight to the role of hereditary factors as causes of criminal actions.
