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Hardly a new disorder A worker attaches a tag that translates as “Killer of a Wife” to a wax-covered head at the Lombroso Museum in Turin, Italy. Hundreds of such heads, taken from prisons throughout Europe, line the museum’s shelves, each with the tags like “Ladro” (“Thief”) or “Omicida” (“Murderer”). The display comes from nineteenth-century psychiatrist Cesare Lombroso’s crude but pioneering research into the nature of criminal and related antisocial behavior.