Review: Renton & Brown
| Author | G. H. Gordon |
| DOI | 10.1177/002201837303700212 |
| Date | 01 April 1973 |
| Published date | 01 April 1973 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
REVIEWS 151
that
criminal
proceedings will
take
place?
And
what,
indeed,
is
"reasonable"
?
Phillimore, it is to be
hoped,
will
manage
to find a
formula
that
is
rather
more
precise.
RENTON
&
BROWN
(Fourth
Edition)
W.
Green
and
Son
Ltd.
£12
Revised
by
Professor G. H.
Gordon
PR O FE SSO R
Gerald
H.
Gordon
published
his Criminal
Law
of
Scotland in 1967.
It
is
now
accepted
as a
standard
among
Scottish
legal text-books. Renton &Brown has
been
in
that
category
now
for
over
50 years.
The
Third
Edition,
published
in
1956, was, in
light
of
intervening
legislation
and
case law,
in
much
need
of
revision.
This
Professor
Gordon
has
done,
successfully restyling
the
book
around
its
well-known form. Professor
Gordon
does
not
waste words.
He
gives
the
law
in
brief
and
concise statements,
supported
well
and
truly
with
ahost
of
authorities.
The
Fourth
Edition
of
Renton &Brown,
published
by
W.
Green
and
Son
Ltd.,
at
£12,
is a
shorter
book
than
its predecessor.
It
suffers
nothing
in consequence.
The
volume
is well
chaptered
and
versed.
The
index, so
vital
to a
work
of
this
nature,
has
been
neatly
revised.
There
are
several
major
revisions
in
the
Fourth
Edition.
In
particular,
the
Professor deals
with
procedures
following
the
legislative
changes
in
the
law
relating
to
the
prosecution
of
child
offenders, as
also
an
array
of
general,
but
so useful, miscellanea.
The
new
edition
of
Renton &Brown is a
"must"
for Scottish
lawyers,
whether
they
practice
daily
in
the
Criminal
Courts,
or
merely
live in fear
of
ever
being
consulted
by
a
client
on a non-civil
matter.
A
STUDY
OF
THE
DETERRENT
EFFECT
OF
CAPITAL
PUNISHMENT
WITH
SPECIAL
REFERENCE
TO
THE
CANADIAN
SITUATION
Research
Centre
Report,
2
By E. A.
Fattah,
Department
of
the
Solicitor-General,
Canada
The
question
of
the
abolition
or
reintroduction
of
capital
punish-
ment
is
claimed
by
many
to be a
question
of
morality
and
nothing
more.
Either
on
the
basis
of
intuition
or
of
a
rational
morality,
such
punishment
is
said
to be
right
or
wrong.
For
such
persons, ascientific
or
statistical review
of
the
social effects
of
capital
punishment
is
irrelevant,
when
considering this
moral
problem,
for
any
statement
in
the
realm
of
"is"
cannot
afford
an
answer
to a
question
asked in
the
realm
of
"ought".
To
those, however,
who
believe
that
the
question
of
capital
punishment
raises a
moral
question
which
cannot
be
answered
in
absolute
terms
or
in a
vacuum,
and
to those
who
believe
the
question
is
simply
asocial question, ascientific
or
statistical
survey
of
the
results
of
that
form
of
punishment
in
the
past
or
else-
where
affords
the
only
evidence
on
which
aconclusion
may
be
reached
about
what
to
do
in
the
future.
For
such
persons,
the
work
done
by
Professor
Fattah
on
behalf
of
the
Solicitor-General
of
Canada
will be
invaluable,
since he
has
published
a
vast
variety
of
statistics
relating
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