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Book Notes, Law Review Staff
Book Notes, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency By Anthony M. Platt Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. Pp. ix, 202.$8.50.
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Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas (rev. ed.) By Clifford R.Shaw & Henry D. McKay Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1969. Pp. 394.
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The Positive School of Criminology Edited by Stanley E. Grupp Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968. Pp. vi, 114. $5.95.
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State and Local Tax Problems Edited by Harry L. Johnson Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1969. Pp. xiii, 190. $7.50.
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Tension in the Cities By James A. Bayton Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co., 1969. Pp. x, …
Book Reviews, Richard C. Allen, Lawrence D. Gaughan
Book Reviews, Richard C. Allen, Lawrence D. Gaughan
Vanderbilt Law Review
In this little book, Leon Radzinowicz, Wolfson Professor of Criminology and Director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, presents a brief survey of criminology in England, the United States, and eight countries of continental Europe. His perspective is historical as well as geographical: in discussing each nation, he begins with a sketch of the concepts and personalities that lent vitality to the development of its criminological teaching and research and concludes with an analysis of the contemporary scene, based on his own first-hand observations during a recent world tour "in search of criminology."With so vast a …
Institutional And Post-Institutional Treatment Of The Sex Offender, Thomas P. Wall Jr., Chalmers P. Wylie
Institutional And Post-Institutional Treatment Of The Sex Offender, Thomas P. Wall Jr., Chalmers P. Wylie
Vanderbilt Law Review
The problem of the sex offender is as old as society itself. Today, as in the distant past, man is more concerned, in the first instance, with protecting himself and his loved ones from the corrupting touch of the so-called "sex- fiend" than he is with the punishment; treatment or cure of such persons. This phenomenon of social psychology still prevails in spite of the growing preachments of the doctor, psychologist, criminologist and more recently, of the lawyer prosecutor, the lawyer law-maker and the lawyer practitioner,' to the effect that the primarily desirable end of protecting society can best be …