Question

Scientific evaluation of Lombroso’s ideas in the early to mid-1990s showed that A. Comparisons of criminals and carefully matched noncriminals failed to support Lombroso’s ideas on the impact of atavistic features. B. Atavism was a robust predictor of crime. C. About half of all offenders fit Lombroso’s notion of ""born criminals."" D. Criminals and noncriminals had dramatically different skeletal features but similar psyches.

Answer 1

A. Comparisons of criminals and carefully matched noncriminals failed to support Lombroso’s ideas on the impact of atavistic features.

Step-by-step explanation:

While Cesare Lombroso, a physician came up with the theory that, criminals can be differentiated from noncriminals just by using some distinct considerable physical characteristics, which he described to have oddities.

His theories were later rejected in Europe, particularly in schools of medicine, where well-detailed comparisons were made on his beliefs of physical differentiation between criminals and non-criminals by the likes of Charles Goring and Alexandre Lacassagne who found irrelevant statistical discrepancies.