Introduction : born criminals, eugenics, and biological theories of crime
Before eugenics : idiots and idiocy in the mid-nineteenth century
Feeble-minded women and the advent of eugenic criminology
Criminalizing the mentally retarded
The rise of the moral imbecile
Degenerates appear in the prison system
The anthropological born criminal
The criminal imbecile
Defective delinquents
Psychopaths and the decline of eugenic criminology
Defective delinquent legislation
The aftermath of eugenic criminology.