Review: Street Traffic Flow
| Published date | 01 April 1935 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X3500800220 |
| Date | 01 April 1935 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
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became a member of the C.LD., and from that time until 1933, when he
retired, he appears to have taken an active part in the investigation of many
of the more notable cases which have occurred in London and in the
provinces, including the Great Pearl Robbery, the Charing Cross
Trunk
Murder, the
Murder
of Lady White, and the Great
Turf
Fraud. He gives
a very readable account of these and other cases, and, as he says, refrains
from any personal opinion about the results with one or two exceptions,
and from adding any of those theoretical discussions which spoil many
such memoirs. In fact we would have welcomed more of the personal,
since to the general reader there must be much in the lifeof a leading detective
officer which is intriguing, such as his ability to do without reasonable
rest and his method of relaxation in his hours of leisure, if indeed he finds
any when working on a big case. How easy in some cases seems the work
of detection, when we read the account of a case and see the building up
of the evidence in
court!
But in this book we get many indications of
the hard work which has gone to the accumulation and piecing together of
such evidence.
It
is also interesting to have acknowledgment of the element
of luck (pp. 21 and 26) in such investigations.
It
would be of great value
to be able to compare this book with one written say twenty years hence
on the same subject, after the further development of scientific aids in
criminal investigation.
In
view of certain cases which have occurred in 1934, it is rather
surprising to read on p. 172 that so far no case of
the"
trunk"
type has gone
unpunished in this country.
The
book is well illustrated with photographs
of the persons and scenes connected with the cases described.
ARCHBOLD'S
CRIMINAL
PLEADING.
29th Edition. By R. E.
Ross and
T.
R.
FITZWALTER
BUTLER.
(Stevens &Sons, Ltd., and
Sweet &Maxwell, Ltd.)
52$.
6d. net.
THISwork has acquired an established position in the libraries of all who are
in any way connected with the administration of criminal law, and for this
reason needs no commendation from the reviewer.
In
this volume legal
references are brought up to 31st July, 1934. Many important alterations
have been made since the last edition, and nearly two hundred new cases
are cited.
STREET
TRAFFIC
FLOW.
By
HENRY
WATSON.
(Chapman and Hall.)
7$.
6d. net.
THISbook, which was reviewed in Volume VI of THE
POLICE
JOURNAL,
has
now been issued at a cheaper price. Mr. Henry Watson has assembled a
considerable mass of material in regard to traffic.
To
have attempted such
a task is a labour of substantial merit,
but
his book suffers to a considerable
extent because it is a personal document embodying the individual views
of the author rather than adetached attempt at practical traffic science.
The
subject of street traffic is a difficult and complex one, and Police
Officers are well aware how often theoretical considerations are upset by
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