Born to Crime The Genetic Causes of Criminal Behavior

'œBorn To Crime makes a clear and compelling case for the intellectual and practical significance of the theory of the born criminal and its varies expressions in the culture and practice of criminal justice in modern Italy. However, as Gibson's very useful book convinces us, a belief that physical features reveal underlying pathologies of character, which criminal anthropology shared with racists, eugeuicists, and antisemites all over the industrialized world in the first half of the twentieth century, prepared the way for far more sinister consequences.'' Journal of Modern HistoryTaylor, Lawrence is the author of 'Born to Crime The Genetic Causes of Criminal Behavior', published 1984 under ISBN 9780313241727 and ISBN 0313241724.