Recent Book: And it All Adds up: Endorsements and Disqualifications under the Road Traffic Acts
| Author | R. Webb |
| Published date | 01 January 1980 |
| Date | 01 January 1980 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X8005300134 |
| Subject Matter | Recent Book |
isolation on the development of Rhesus
monkeys, and a third chapter on
psychopathology.
The chapters in the book range from in
depth reviewsof recent research, as in the
chapter on Adolescence, to rather
shallow rambles about a topic, as in the
chapter written from an anthropological
perspective.
The editor saysthat "thechapters have
been written with the expectation that
the average reader will have taken one or
two previous courses in introductory
psychology." Thus, this is not a text for
the postulant psychologist but may also
fail to besufficiently specialised to satisfy
those with some knowledge of the
subjects under discussion. It could be
best used to complement other texts so
that an adequate coverage of the topics
can be assured. J. HILTON
AND IT ALL
ADDS
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C. H.
MOSIER:
Endorsements and Disqualifications under the
Road
Traffic Acts.
Barry Rose £1.50
The latest edition of this booklet (April always a help when reference has to be
1979)
incorporates
the
relevant
made to the Swansea "print out".
provisions of the Criminal Law Act 1977 It is a pity that no reference is made to
In
particularas to penalties. As before, its the case of R v, Saunders ( 1978) Crim.
main usefulness is in the concise way in L.R. 98 a Nottingham Crown Courtcase
which the various offences and penalties which held that for the purpose of
can be found the magistrates, powers to comply with a traffic warden's
when imposing sentence without the direction is neither endorsable nor
necessity of thumbing through a disqualifiable. Nevertheless a handy and
textbook.
The
Department
of
quick guide to this subject by a well
Environment computer offence coding known author.
classification is quoted for each offence, R. WEBB
99 January 1980 Police Journal
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