Book Review: Proceedings of the Institute of Criminology 1969, No.3
| Author | Allen A. Bartholomew |
| DOI | 10.1177/000486587100400216 |
| Published date | 01 June 1971 |
| Date | 01 June 1971 |
126 AUST. &N.Z. JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (June, 1971): 4, 2
Drugs
and
the
Law, Reginald
Whitaker.
Methuen,
Toronto,
Sydney, 1969. viii +
240pp. $A7.80.
THAT the
problems
posed by
drugs
are
now
the
concern
of
virtually
the
whole
world,
certainly
the
"Western
World",
is
well recognized. No
doubt
as a result,
the
literature
concerning drug problems, from
every
point
of view, is increasing
at
a
quite
remarkable
rate.
However,
much
of
the
literature
is largely repetitive,
saying
nothing
very
new
but
rephrasing
well
known
facts
in a
variety
of
words
and
phrases.
The
present
book is no exception. Never-
theless, having
said
this, it
must
be admit-
ted
that
the
reviewer enjoyed this
book
quite as
much
as
any
similar volume,
and
ra
ther
more
than
most. This is in
part
be-
cause
the
author
is
clearly
not
attempting
to
preach
any
particular
thesis
other
than
reasonable
tolerance
and
scientific
enquiry
(See p.viii).
Thus
this book is
readable,
although
not
particularly
original,
and
while
worth
being
read
by criminologists
from all origins, it
cannot
be said
to
be a
"must"
in
any
library,
personal
or institu-
tional. ALLEN A. BARTHOLOMEW,
Melbourne.
Proceedings of the'
Institute
of Criminology
1969, No.3, (Ed.) 0b t a i
ned
from
the
Secretary
of
the
Institute,
University
of
Sydney. $A4 or $A5 overseas. pp.119.
THE
fourth
number
of
the
Proceedings to
appear
brings to
the
public
the
papers
presented
to a
seminar
on Bail
held
in
Sydney
under
the
aegis of
the
Institute
of Criminology of
the
University of Syd-
ney. The
problems
raised by bail
are
by no
means
purely
academic
and
this,
number
of
the
Proceedings
must
be
accounted
a
valuable
publication
in
that
it covers
the
field in
such
acomprehensive
manner
and
tha
t
the
coverage
is
undertaken
by
per
..
sons of
such
different interests. The first
chapter
is
entitled
"Legal Principles
gov
..
erning
the
Granting
of Bail" by
an
aca
..
demic
lawyer,
then
follows a
chapter
on
"Bail
Statistics"
by a statistician, a
paper
by a judge of
the
Supreme
Court, a
paper
by a
crown
prosecutor
and
papers
by a
stipendiary
magistrate,
adetective-ser-
geant, a
district
court
judge, a
senior
public
defender
and
by a
research
assist-
ant
who
wrote
on
the
topic
"An
Applica-
tion of
the
Manhattan
Bail
System
to
New
South
Wales
Offenders". Finally,
two
ap-
pendices by a
senior
research
assistant
concerned
with
"Bail in Foreign Climes"
and
"A
Proposal
for
the
Creation
of a Bail
Tribunal"
are
not
the
least
interesting.
After
such
acollection of
persons
of
diverse ability, it
seems
almost
churljsh
to
make
acriticism. However, it is
thought
a
pity
that
no spokesman from
the
prison
administration
was
invited to
comment
on
the
problem
from
the
point
of view of
the
prison
administrator.
ALLEN
A. BARTHOLOMEWI'
Melbourne.
Sexual Deviance,
John
H. Gagnon
and
William Simon (Eds.)
Harper
and
Row,
New York, 1967. viii +310pp.
THIS book is
rather
different,
and
refresh-
ingly different,
from
the
run
of
the
stan-
dard
textbooks
concerned
with
sexual
deviance.
Instead
of becoming involved in
setting
out
various
notions of
the
psycho-
pathology of
the
so-called deviance
and
asserting
the
efficacy
or
otherwise of
various
treatment
techniques, it
adopts
a
more
socio-clinical
approach
and
there
are
substantial
quotations
taken
from
the
conversations of
the
different types of
deviant.
For
example,
when
discussing
lesbianism,
instead
of simply using jargon,
the
quote occurs:
"I
always
had
this fan-
tasy
about
being a
cowboy
or
Robin Hood.
And
then
Irealized
they
always
had
agirl
friend, aMaid
Marian.
So in my
fantasies
I
began
to have my girl friends".
This
type
of
book
cannot
be seen as in
any
way
replacing
the
more
academic
texts,
but
it is a
valuable
companion
volume. It also offers auseful
introduction
to
the
subject
of
sexual
deviance to
the
non-clinical criminological
student
and
would be well
worth
reading by
any
bar-
rister
intending to
practise
at
the
criminal
bar.
ALLEN
A. BARTHOLOMEW,
Melbourne.
BOOKS RECEIVED
Ancel, M.,
Suspended
sentence:
Report
to
the
Cambridge
Institute
of
Criminology.
'Heinemann, London, 1971. $4.80.
Bassiouni, M. Cherif, The'
Law
of
Dissent
and
Riots.
Charles
C. Thomas, Illinois,
1970, 498 pp. $24.15.
Chapman, S. G., Police
Patrol
Readings.
Charles IC. Thomas, Illinois, 1970, 759 pp.
$23.25.
Martin, J. P.,
and
Webste,r, D., Social
Consequences
of Conviction. Heinemann,
London. $13.45.
Mayo, P. E.,
The
Making
of aCriminal.
Weidenfeld
and
Nicolson, 147 pp. $6.30.
Suttles,
G. 'D.,
The
Social
Order
of
the
Slum:
Ethnicity
and
Territory
in
the
Inner
City.
University
of Chicago Press,
Chicago, 243 pp, $3.20.
Wills, W. D., A
Place
Like
Home: A
Pioneer
Hostel
for
Boys.
Allen
and
Unwin, 1970,
133 pp. $5.40.
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