The eugenics movement began in the early 1900s and was embraced by doctors and the general public during the 1920s. The movement aimed to create a better society through monitoring genetic traits through selective inheritance. Over time, eugenics took two different views. Proponents of positive eugenics believed in the promotion of procreation by a “genetically superior” class. On the contrary, the proponents of negative eugenics attempted to police the defects of society by sterilizing the “inferiors.” Due to a rise in crime in many cities during the 1900s, eugenicists began to focus on the role of genes in determining criminal behavior. Many lived by the motto “it is not culture that makes the man, but the man who makes the culture”. This essentially meant that the less fortunate tend to create and gravitate towards poverty-stricken environments. Although scientists did not fully consider the influence of environment on crime, they believed that the main cause of criminal behavior was faulty genes. Although many eugenics experiments were flawed and criticized...