Scientific evaluation of Lombroso's ideas in the early to mid-1990s showed that
A) Atavism was a robust predictor of crime.
B) Comparisons of criminals and carefully matched noncriminals failed to support Lombroso's ideas on the impact of atavistic features.
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.
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