Who argued that certain body features could be used to identify criminals?

It is Cesare Lombroso. Lombroso's general hypothesis recommended that crooks are recognized from noncriminals by numerous physical oddities. He hypothesized that lawbreakers spoke to an inversion to a primitive or subhuman kind of individual described by physical highlights reminiscent of chimps, bring down primates, and early people and to some degree saved, he stated, in present day "savages".