“Born 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 History