Review: Revue Internationale De Criminalistique
| Published date | 01 July 1930 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X3000300318 |
| Date | 01 July 1930 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
THE
POLICE JOURNAL
translation, and apparently M. Cassellari has written his stories himself in
English.
In
any case, his literary style is clear and vivacious. Reading his
recollections is like listening to a clever Frenchman talking of interesting
things in excellent English whose charm is enhanced by traces of a French
accent and idiom.
M. Cassellari tells us little directly regarding his methods,
but
he does
not mention finger-prints, and he is evidently not one of those detectives,
common in fiction, who get down on their hands and knees with a magnifying
glass and a measuring tape directly they arrive on the scene of a crime. He
says in his first story that without luck no detective ever achieved a successful
career, and he refers more than once to ' what the English call the long arm
of coincidence.' But he admits that he has a logical mind, and it is clear that
he possesses also a lively ingenuity and a quick apprehension which little
escapes.
In
addition his sense of humour and his appreciation of the comedy
of life have enabled him to write a book which will give real pleasure to all
his readers, quite apart from the light it throws on the mentality of the French
criminal and the working of the French detective system.
REVUE
INTERNATIONALE
DE
CRIMINALISTIQUE
(Organe
officiel de I'Academic Internationale de Criminalistique). 1929. 1930.
(joannes Desvigne et ses Fils, Lyon, France.)
THE International Academy of Criminology was founded in 1929, with
Professor Siegfried Turkel, the Director of the Police Laboratory at Vienna,
as Secretary.
The
medium for the publications of the Academy is the
International Review of Criminology, of which
Dr.
Edmund Locard, the
well-known Director of the Police Laboratory at 35, rue Saint-Jean, Lyons,
is Editor-in-Chief.
This
periodical, which is now in its second year, has
technical articles of a high standard and of value to the police officer. It
also contains reviews of the contents of various journals dealing with crim-
inology in Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, and elsewhere. These indicate
how widespread are the periodicals dealing with medico-legal subjects.
The
Articles of Association of the International Academy of Criminology,
which are published in full in the second number for 1930, should prove of
interest to police officers in connection with international co-operation in the
contest against crime.
UNIFORM
CRIME
REPORTS
FOR
THE
UNITED
STATES
AND
ITS
POSSESSIONS.
Vol. 1. No. Ifor January, 1930, and subsequent
Monthly Bulletins. (Committee on Uniform Crime Records: 261,
Broadway, New York City.)
IT goes without saying that criminal statistics based on a uniform system are
essential to the police official in order to interpretthe past, realize the present
and make provision for the future. It is therefore interesting to find that it
was only in January 1930 that the extent and incidence of known offences
were for the first time compiled on a sure foundation for the United States
as a whole.
The
first Bulletin for January covered 400 cities in 43 States
with a population of 20 millions: in the March issue the registration area
was increased to 541 cities in 44 States.
The
movement to procure and analyse criminal statistics dates in
America from 1871.
The
Bureau of the Census prepared, in 1927, with the
assistance of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, its
,Manual of Instructions for Compiling Criminal Statistics.'
This
formed
the basis for a tentative Set of Instructions
for'
Uniform Crime Reporting,'
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