ABSTRACT
For years, researchers and practitioners looked at crime and criminal behavior in an attempt to predict and forecast trends. Early efforts, including the work of individuals such as Adolphe Quetelet, Raymond Saleilles, and Cesare Lombroso, sought to identify the individual tendencies or, as in the case of Lombroso, the key indicators from which predictions of future behavior could be drawn. Lombroso, in his theory of the atavistic or born criminal, believed that some people possessed degenerative traits that could be identified in their physical structure that would differentiate them from the normal, socially well-adjusted man.2 Although his work did not achieve the results he envisioned, the study of crime and its causes would continue well past his lifetime.
