Notes on Police Publications
| Published date | 01 October 1932 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X3200500419 |
| Date | 01 October 1932 |
| Subject Matter | Notes on Police Publications |
NOTES ON POLICE PUBLICATIONS
The Canadian Police Gazette for July has an outspoken article, '
The
Art of
Murder,'
about crime in the United States.
Two
passages are as follows:
•
The
example set by the gangsters under King AI, in our opinion, is calculated
to initiate a reign of terror in the United States, which will prove to be a
disgrace not only to them,
but
to the whole civilized world. In other words,
the killing of that baby was meant to show
just
exactly what they proposed
to do with the people of the United States if they sent any member of
that
organized vice gang to jail.
...
It
should be borne in mind that since Mus-
solini adopted his firm attitude towards the Camorra there has been a whole-
sale emigration to the United States and Canada of these undesirables, in
some way they managing to get by the immigration officers here.'
Canadian police opinion, it may also be mentioned, is strongly in favour
of corporal punishment to deter violent criminals (' More
Lashes-Less
Jail ').
The
Kenya Police
Annual
Report, 1931, gives a case of conviction through
finger-prints left at the scene of offence by a Kikuyu, who murdered a Goan
woman and her two children with a piece of piping for the sake of theft.
The
attractive geniality of the Malayan Police Service is displayed as
usual in the June Magazine.
The
Officers at the King's Birthday Parade at
Kuala
Lampur
have an appearance of great smartness and efficiency.
The
ChicagoJournal of Criminology (May-June, p. 90) gives us a case of
assassination of a schoolmaster in Soviet Russia by a boy, after deliberation
among the pupils, because he was a ' selfish man.'
This
could only be a
capital offence under the Soviet (that is the murder, not the selfishness) on
the ground that it was an act directed against the authorities of the State.
The
school staff demanded execution,
but
the State Attorney freed the boy,
concluding that the fault was of ' deplorable school conditions.'
The
official
departmental magazine wrote, ' the State's Attorney has shown in this case
abetter pedagogical understanding than the teachers of the school.'
A book to read seems to be From Cain to Capone, by John McConaghy
(Brentano's, New York, 1931). On the whole the criminologists of the
U.S.A. seem to bury themselves in rather verbose academic exercises rather
than mobilize their wits in a practical campaign against Cain and Capone.
The
German Polizei-Archiv, of Dresden, has a fine series of police
pictures in many lands, anti-gas exercises, police with rifles, police with
shock helmets, widows of police officers who have met violent deaths, and
•
Bobby'
in England peacefully helping the public or risking his life for them.
Revue Internationale de Criminalistique (Lyon) has much of interest, includ-
ing remarks on evidence of occupation of owners of watches from analysis
of the dust found in them. Italian attention to crime is very thorough, as
shown in the papers written in that country. Argentina (Revista de Crimino-
logia, etc., Buenos Aires), also gives us many interesting articles and reviews.
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