During the 18th century there once live a rather remarkable individual in France who is considered today to be the father of modern criminology. Eugene Vidocq lived his life by one philosophy, in order to catch a criminal, you had to be able to think like one. Which was fortunate in his case, because on top of being the first modern detective, Vidocq was also a wanted criminal.

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Notes: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/edgar-allan-poe-invented-detective-story-180962914/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/edgar-allan-poe-tried-and-failed-to-crack-the-mysterious-murder-case-of-mary-rogers-7493607/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P88796W/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1https://www.headstuff.org/culture/history/terrible-people-from-history/eugene-francois-vidocq-french-criminal-detective/https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Eugne-Franois-Vidocq-The-Convict-Who-Became-the-Father-of-Modern-Criminal-Investigationhttps://www.vidocq.org/history/https://allthatsinteresting.com/eugene-francois-vidocq

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