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.