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248: 166:. Under the sponsorship of the British government, Goring, assisted by other prison medical officers, as well as Karl Pearson and his staff at the Biometrics Laboratory, collected and analysed data bearing upon 96 traits of each of over 3,000 English convicts. He ultimately concluded that "the physical and mental constitution of both criminal and law-abiding persons, of the same age, stature, class, and intelligence, are identical. There is no such thing as an anthropological criminal type." 267: 320: 126:, receiving his B.Sc. in 1895 and his M.D. in 1903. In 1893, he was awarded the John Stuart Mill Studentship in Philosophy of Mind and Logic, and four years later was elected a Fellow of University College. From 1902 until his death in 1919, he was employed as medical officer in various English prisons. 170:
physique - as measured by stature and body weight, by defective mental capacity". Goring went on to argue that one of the three measures in which to combat crime was to "regulate the reproduction of those degrees of constitutional qualities - feeble-minded, inebriety, epilepsy, social instinct, etc".
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He did, however, assert that it is an "indisputable fact that there is a physical, mental, and moral type of normal person who tends to be convicted of crime: that is to say, our evidence conclusively shows that, on average, the criminal of English prisons is markedly differentiated by defective
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He married Katie Winifred Macdonald, a pianist and suffragette, in Paris in 1905. They had two sons, Charles Donald Austin Goring (known as Donald) who died in a motor vehicle accident in Yemen in 1936 and
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once said: "The creative mind has the potentiality of poet, artist and scientist within its grasp, and Goring's friends were never very certain in which category to place him."
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He was highly regarded among those who knew him for his scientific imagination, logic and excellent prose. His colleague
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He died on 5 May 1919 at his home in Cheetham Hill, Manchester from influenza. He was the Chief Medical Officer at
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This biography article of a United Kingdom academic is a
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Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science
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Weldon Memorial Prize
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Marius Goring
HM Prison Manchester
Karl Pearson
Cesare Lombroso
"Pioneers in Criminology. XIV. Charles Buckman Goring (1870-1919)"
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The English Convict: a statistical study
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Works by or about Charles Buckman Goring
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