The eugenics movement began in the early 1900s and was adopted by doctors and the general public in the 1920s. The movement aimed to create a better society by tracking genetic traits through selective inheritance. Over time, eugenics has taken on two different visions. Proponents of positive eugenics believed in the promotion of pregnancy by a class that was “genetically superior.” In contrast, advocates of negative eugenics sought to monitor society's defects through the sterilization of "inferiors." Due to the rising crime wave in many cities during the 1900s, eugenicists began to focus on the role of genes in determining criminal behavior. Many lived according to the motto “culture does not make man, but man makes culture”. This essentially states that the less fortunate tend to create and gravitate towards poverty-stricken environments. Although scientists did not fully evaluate the environmental influence on crime, they believed that the main cause of criminal behavior was faulty genes. Although many of the eugenic experiments were flawed and critical...