Recent Book: The Stand-By: Gross's Criminal Investigation
| Published date | 01 December 1967 |
| Date | 01 December 1967 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X6704001204 |
| Subject Matter | Recent Book |
were seized. In addition, invaluable experience was gained.
Since this operation took place, the situation in Hong Kong
has continued to improve,
and
the scope of activity has become
increasingly restricted for those who have pitted themselves
against society. Home-made bombs, whose manufacture and
distribution involve comparatively few people
and
are corres-
pondingly difficult to detect, now provide the communists with
almost their sole means of retaliation against a public which
has so wholeheartedly rejected them. Occasionally these bomb
outrages involve injury and loss of life, usually to innocent
bystanders. But to see the bustle of this teeming city continue,
much as it ever did, to witness the familiar kaleidoscope of
colour in the bustling streets, would lead the casual observer
to conclude that nothing can dispirit or deter Hong Kong's
irrepressible people. He might almost remain blissfully unaware
of the challenge that has been, and is being so strikingly met
with a confidence and cheerfulness that belie its importance.
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RECENT
THE
ST
AND·BY
R. L.
JACKSON
(Editor): Gross's Criminal Investigation. Sweet and Maxwell.
18s. 6d.
I am sure adetailed review of
such a well known
work
as Gross
is unnecessary.
It
is a standard
text
book
on criminal investigation
not
only in this country
but
in
many
others
throughout
the world.
The
basic principles will never alter
(even
though
they
are
often over-
looked) and I think the latest issue
is a
"must"
for
every police in-
vestigator.
This
issue is a re-print of the fifth
edition published in 1962, and edited
by Sir Richard Jackson, then Assis-
tant
Commissioner (Crime) at New
Scotland
Yard,
and the re-print is
the same,
but
with a difference.
It
is a
paperback
and the price is a
mere
18s. 6d.
Some acquire books to grace
bookshelves, others to read and
study them, and just as paperbacks
have
brought
the world's finest
literature within the reach of every-
one, so publications such as this
548
could revolutionize standard text
books and bring them within the
reach and purse of every young
policeman.
As a young constable (pay
about
£180 a year) I
bought
the second
edition of Gross.
The
price then, ]
think, was £3 3s. and I paid for it
by instalments. I have never re-
gretted it.
It is
not
enough to have one well
bound
copy of such a
work
in the
divisional library; it is something to
be browsed
through
at
odd
moments
and easily available for reference in
odd cases.
I have only one criticism: Ithink
it is a pity the present issue is not
a new sixth edition - as a paper-
back, of course -because so
much
advance has been made in police
techniques since 1962. However, as
I have said, basic principles never
alter
and those principles are clear
in the present issue. T.L.
December 1967
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