Recent Book: Smith and Hogan: Criminal Law: Cases and Materials
| Published date | 01 April 1976 |
| Date | 01 April 1976 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X7604900217 |
| Subject Matter | Recent Book |
D.P.
criminal lawyers play a small
but
infinitely significant part in the whole
scene, the
book
is nevertheless emin-
ently worthwhile and written with
considerable style. Particular attention
is drawn to the unmatched biblio-
graphy, which contains a mass of
fascinating detail in itself enough to
put the thinking policeman
"on
inquiry" for a year or two.
Thoroughly recommended.
and treachery of the professional re-
ceiver is manifested, and it is a far cry
from the
"not
all
bad"
Fagin-like and
obliging shopkeeper character, so
often imagined. The motive for revenge
murders
and
maimings becomes plain
enough against the backdrop of this
style
of
extended betrayal.
With the described reservations,
namely
that
exposes by talkative
criminals hardly ever contain the final
10 per cent. of gritty truth, and
that
STUDY
E. R.
BAKER
AND
F. B.
DODGE:
Baker and Wilkie Promotion Handbooks.
No.1
Criminal Law (4th edition).
No.5
Road Traffic (5th Edition). Butterworth &Co,
£2.40 each
It
is natural to compare this series them valuable marks which may be
with dear old Moriarty and one cannot no real reflection on the quality of
help wondering why Baker and Wilkie their studies.
have never succeeded in removing Agreat responsibility rests on the
the mistakes, which
apart
from its editors
of
such books and it is pleasing
very last editions, Moriarty always to report that at least "Criminal
Law"
did. has fewer errors and contains some
The
writer can remember communi- very recent cases.
eating with the publisher on mistakes I only wish one could report the
in the 3rd edition
of
Road Traffic same of others in the series or the
which still appear in the 5th. Editor would give me enough space
This is particularly unfortunate to detail the errors in Road Traffic.
when these books are now being used What an opportunity wasted.
by candidates for promotion examina-
AEDIUS
tions. Their resultant mistakes cost
SMITH
and
HOGAN
SMITH
AND
HOGAN:
Criminal Law: Casesand Materials. Butterworth.
Hardback
£12.00 Soft Cover £7.60
The well-known work Criminal Law repeatedly drummed into me
that
by Professors Smith and
Hogan
has there is absolutely no substitute for
already achieved the distinction of reading the full reports of cases in the
having been cited with approval in the Law Reports. However, with books
highest courts
of
the land, within the such as this on the market, containing
lifetime of its authors. Clearly, this
not
only headnotes but complete
work is not destined for such dizzy extracts from judgements and learned
heights, but it does provide, in concise articles the necessity for ploughing
form, a very large number of cases and through lengthy
and
often dusty re-
authorities which the average student ports must be far less for the student
of criminal law will need to study
of
today.
When I was a student, it was H.C.W.
LEADERSHIP
BRIAN
A
.GROSMAN:
Police Command: Decisions and Discretion. Macmillan,
Toronto, Canada.
Brian
Grosman
is professor
of
law of materials on police administration,
at the University
of
Saskatchewan particularly in the United States,
Law School and Chairman
of
the there has been a paucity
of
serious
Saskatchewan Law Reform Com- studies
of
police decision-making
and
mission. In 1969, he published a even more importantly of the exercise
highly provocative study, The Prose-
of
police discretion. Deficient as is
cutor: An Inquiry Into the Exercise the literature, I must confess however
of
Discretion, which stimulated inter- some astonishment
that
Grosman
est in a hitherto very much neglected neglects, or at least does
not
cite, some
area of the administration
of
criminal contributions which have proved help-
justice. ful (notably Allen Bristow: Decision
In Police Command,
Grosman
has, Making inPolice Administration (C. C.
Ithink, once again ploughed new Thomas, 1961) - and perhaps even
fields
...
for despite the proliferation more basic, Herbert Simon's Admini-
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1976 137
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