RECENT PERIODICAL LITERATURE

Date01 May 1956
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1956.tb00365.x
Published date01 May 1956
MAY
1066
REVIEW8
889
years (plus three previously unpublished articles), commenting on some of the
leading problems in criminology, penology, and the criminal law. Contributions
to legal, sociological, criminological and mental health journals and papers
prepared for several international congresses reveal both the range of the
author’s interests and learning and the essential cohesion of his views. He
describes himself
as
“a
cross between
a
lawyer and
a.
. .
sociological
criminologist ”-the cross-breeding has produced
a
blend of the better charac-
teristics of both parents, law and sociology.
The articles collected range from the near popular to the close analysis
of the methodology of social research; however, nowhere is there to be found
the glib, simplistic and therefore usually wrong conclusions characteristic of
so
much that is written on criminology. The lawyer, interested as he should
be in the study of the adult offender, in collective punishment, in the discipline
of criminology and its methods, in capital punishment, in the short prison
sentences and their alternatives, and in some of the more important and
socially significant aspects of the criminal law, will And much of value in
this book. The articles on American Prisons and American Criminology
provide
a
useful counter-balance to the sensationalism of most of the mis-
information on these topics that crossa the Atlantic.
whereas
. .
.
the social worker has become
accepted as an essential link in the practical administration
of
criminal
justice, the sociologist has in this field still to Aght for his recognition.”
It
is accepted in England that the social worker has an indispensable part to
play in the aftercare of prisoners, the treatment of criminals by Probation
in the community, the assistance in diagnostic advice to the courts, and in
many aspects of the problems of juvenile delinquency; here the skills of social
case work
are
welcomed and their practical value recognised. The same is
not true of the developing and established skills of the sociologist, who seeks
to search out the complex and important group and cultural pressures without
an understanding of which there can be no rational and effective penal system.
It
is to be hoped that this book wiii lend many to
a
recognition of the great
value of this neglected approach to the problems
of
crime and punishment.
As
Dr. Mannheim points
out,
NORVAL MORRIB.
RECENT PERIODICAL LITERATURE
(1)
Benerd.
J.
A.
C~RRY
:
Use of legislative history in the interpretation
of statutes,”
82
Can.B.Rev.
624-637;
A.
T.
Independence and
impartiality
of
the judges,”
71
S.A.L.J.
846858;
A.
T.
DENNINO
:
“Traditions
of the Bar,”
72
S.A.L.J.
48-67;
I.
C. RAND: “Legal education in Canada,”
82
Can.B.Rev.
887-418.
(2)
Conrtitoctiond
and Adminirtratiue
kaw.
s.
A.
DE
SnxIni:
“Right to
a
hearing in English administrative law,”
68
Harv.L.Rcv.
669-699;
E.
MCWHINNEY
:
‘I
Courts and the Constitution in Catholic Ireland,”
29
Tul.L.
Rev.
64-86.
Legal profession in ancient Republican
Rome,”
80
Notre Dame Law
97-148;
D.
JONAS:
“Some light on the
Roman law of legal liability,”
6
Baylor L.Rev.
431-464.
(4)
Law
of
contract.
J.
K.
GnonEcrI
:
‘‘
In pari delicto potior est conditio
defendentis,”
71
L.Q.R.
264-274;
K.
0.
SHATWELL
:
Doctrine of consideration
in the modern law,”
1
Sydney L.Rev.
289-881;
K.
0.
SIfApVELL:
“Supposed
doctrine
of
mistake in contract:
a
comedy of errors,”
83
Can.B.Rev.
164-198;
7.
J.
SUDE:
“Myth of mistake in the English law of contract,”
70
L.Q.R.
-8;
S.
J.
STOLTAR:
“False distinction between bilateral and unilateral
contracts,”
64
Yale
L.J.
616686.
DENNINO
:
(8)
Roman
law.
A.
H.
CIIROUST:

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