For 10 points, identify this field which studies people such as Richard Speck, Bernie Madoff, and John Gotti.
Experiments in this field include Lawrence Sherman's Minneapolis research as well as the product of research into six hundred events in Philadelphia by Marvin Wolfgang. The first person to use a statistical approach in this field was Adolphe Quetelet, who noted the "astonishing constancy" of the male/female ratio. Its other luminaries included a man who wrote a namesake textbook, Edwin Sutherland, the inventor of "atavism," Cesare Lombroso, and a figure who wrote of the disconnect between social goals and available means causing "strain," Robert K. Merton. Samuel Romilly was one of the first people to put ideas of this field into practice, having been influenced by the work of Cesare Beccaria. For 10 points, identify this field which studies people such as Richard Speck, Bernie Madoff, and John Gotti.
Experiments in this field include Lawrence Sherman's Minneapolis research as well as the product of research into six hundred events in Philadelphia by Marvin Wolfgang.
{criminology}