Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Volume 41 | Issue 4
Article 15
1951
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BOO REVIEWS
dropped from 8,967 to 4,085 of which most were "breach of the peace" and "drunkenness." Imprisonment for "breach of the peace" declined from 2,919 to 1,569 and drunkenness from 3,390 to 854 in the corresponding years.
From 1939 to 1948 there has been a noticeable change in the age composition of Scottish prisoners. In 1939, 23.5 percent of the prisoners were under 30 years of age (5.2 percent under 21 years) whereas in J948 52 percent were under 30 years of age (15.9 percent under 21 years). The prison staffs in 1939 numbered 518 governors, chaplains, medical officers, officers and others and 761 in 1948.
Iowa State College WALTER A. LUNDEN
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED
(Titles listed here are not thereby precluded from later review)
REPORT ON A STUDY OF 102 SFux OFFENDERS AT SING SING PRISON AS SUBMITTED TO GOVERNOR THOMAS E. DEWEY TOGETHER WITH THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE IN SUPPORT OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND THE TEXT OF LEGISLATION PASSED
BY THE NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE. Division of Documents, Albany,
New York. March 1950. Pp. 95. 40 cents.
LA MTUJER DELINCUENTE EN EsPA.NL AUN Su TmTIMIENTO CORRECCIONAL. By Gregorio Lasala Navarro. Edita por la Difeccion General de Institutos Penales de la Nacion Division Cultura Vol. I. Department of Justice for Argentina, Buenos Aires. 1948. Pp. 118.
PERSONALITY-A SYSTEMATIC THEORETICAL AND FACTUAL STUDY. By Ray-mond D. Cattell. McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1950. Pp. 689. $5.50.
THE CRIMINALITY OF WOMEN. By Otto Pollak. University of Pennsylvania
Press. 1950. Pp. 80. $3.50.
THE OFFICE AND DUTIES OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS. By Sir
Theobold Mathew, Dir. University of London. The Athlone Press. 1950. Pp. 16. Is 6d.
12 AGAINST CRIME. By Edward D. Radin. G. P. Putnam's Sons.. 1950. Pp.
242. $3.00.
.ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY AND M1IODERN LIFE. By James C. Coleman. Scott,
Foresman & Co. 1950. Pp. 657. $4.50.
IANUAL OF CRIMINAL STATISTICS. By Ronald H. Beattie. For the Committee
on Research and Planning, American Prison Association, 135 East 15th St., New York City. April 1950. Pp. 48.
CENTRALIZATION OF FEDERAL PROSECUTIONS. By John G. Hemberg. Reprint
from Missouri Law Review, 15, No. 3. June 1950. Pp. 15.
HANDBOOK ON PRE-RELEASE PREPARATION IN CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS. By
Committee on Classification and Casework of the American Prison Associ-ation. Norman Fenton, Chairman, American Prison Association, 135 East 15th St., New York City. Pp. 79.
THE 105TH ANNuAL REPORT OF THE PRISON ASSOCIATION IN NTEW YORK 1949. By E. R. Cass, General Secretary. Pp. 98.
THE SEX DEmIATE. By Edward E. Mayer, M.D. Reprint from the Pennsyl-vania Medical Journal, January 1950, 3. Pp. 32-37.
GAMBLING IN THE LATIN-AMERICAN COUNTRIES. By Manuel Lopez-Rey.
An-nals American Academy of Political and Social Science, May 1950. Pp, 134-143.
BOOK EVIEWS
FREUD: DICTIONARY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. Edited by Nandor Fodor and Frank
Gaynor. Philosophical Library, New York. 1950. Pp. 208. $3.75.
REVISTA PENAL Y PENITENCIARIA. ORGANO DE LA DIRECCION GENERAL DE IN-STITUTOS PENALES. Tomo 12. Pp. 613 and Index. 1947. Nos. 43-46.
Ministerio de Justicia E Instruccion Publica de la Nacion.
CRIMES OF VIOLENCE: REPORT OF A CONFERENCE ON CRIME SPONSORED BY TE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, AUGUST 15-18, 1949. Boulder, Colorado. Pp. 109.
DELINQUENCY CONTROL (Revised Edition). By Lowell Juillard Carr. Harper & Brothers. 1950. Pp. 588. $4.50.
TRIAL, OF ALMA VICTORIA RATTENBURY AND GEORGE PERCY STONER (Second
Edition). Notable British Trials Series. Editor, F. Tennyson Jesse. William Hodge & Co., Ltd. 1950. Pp. 298. $3.50.
TRIAL OF JESSIE T&TcLACHLAN (Second Edition). Notable British Trials Series. Editor, William Roughead. William Hodge & Co., Ltd. 1950. Pp. 402.
$3.50.
A STUDY OF POLICE TRAINING PROGRAMS IN 1-INORITY RELATIONS. By Milton Senn. Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. Southern California Re-gional Office, Los Angeles. 1950. (Mimeographed.)
A REPORT ON PRELEGAL EDUCATION. By Arthur T. Vanderbilt. Reprint from New York University Law Review, 25, No. 2. April 1950. Pp. 200-290.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE PERIODICALS AND ARTICLES OF INTEREST IN THE FIELD OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY *
Compiled 'by KURT SCHWERIN*
Criminalia. Revista mensual. Organo de la Academia mexicana de ciencias penales. Afio XVI, no. 7-9, July-Sep. 1950. Mexico, D. F.
Jos6 Torres Torija, El principio de la investiqacidn criminal (Principles of criminal investigation) (no. 7, p. 296-298)--Jose Angel Ceniceros, La revisidn de las leyes penales mexicanas (The reform of the Mexican criminal
laws) (no. 8, p. 310-313).-Celestino Porte Petit, El anteproyecto del Codigo penal (The preliminary project of the Penal code) (no. 8, p. 317-331).-Alfonso Teja Zabre, Principios de ciencia penal (Principles of criminal sci-ence. The work in criminal law and criminology in the Central University of Honduras) (no. 9, p. 352-358).-Efram Urz6a M., Limites del derecho de defensa en materia penal (Limits of legal defense in criminal cases) (no. 9, p. 359-362).
International criminal police review. Revue internationale de police criminelle. Official organ of the International criminal police commission. Paris. 5th year, no. 39, June-July 1950. English edition.
J. Pinatel, New horizons in criminology (Comments on the work by Harry Elmer Barnes and Negley K. Teeters) (p. 169-173).
Juristisehe rundschau. Berlin (Western Zone). Jahrg. 1950, July 10, heft 13. W. Lindenberg, Hirnverletzung und kriminalitdt (Brain injuries and crim-inality (p. 395-396).
*All periodicals listed are available in the Elbert H. Gary Library, Northwestern University School of Law, 357 East Chicago Ave., Chicago.
" Head, Foreign and International Law Sections, Elbert H. Gary Library, North-western University School of Law.
BOOK RBEYIEWS
Neue juristische wochenschrift. Munich. Year 3, heft 18, Sep. 15, 1950. Ed. Kern, Der entwurf eines gesetzes zur inderung des strafgesetzbuch es
(The project of a law for the reform of the Penal code) (p. 667-669). Nordisk tidsskrift for kriminalvidenskab. Copenhagen. 38th year, no. 3, 1950.
Karl 0. Christiansen, Kriminaliteten i Danmark efter krigen (Criminality in Denmark after the war) (p. 229-236).--'Gran Hultkrantz, Corrective training. Ett nytt engelskt straffverstdllighets-experiment (Corrective training: A new British experiment in sentencing criminals) (p. 236-247). Polizei-rundschau. Monatshefte fir polizeikunde und kriminalistik. Hamburg-Liibeck. Year 4, heft 7, July 1950.
Willy Gay, Die entwicklung der kriminalitiit in der nachkriegszeit (Crim-inality in the post-war period) (p. 99-101).
Rassegna di neuropsichiatria. Ospedale Psichiatrico Consortile, Nocera In-feriore (Salerno), Italy. vol. 4, no. 5, Sep./Oct. 1950.
C. Catalano-Nobili & G. Cerquetelli, Indicazioni e limiti della lobotomia
pre-frontale nella criminalit abituale (Indications and limits of prefrontal lobotomy in habitual criminality) (p. 440-446).-Same authors, La volonta nel determinismo della condotta criminale abituale dell'amorale (The will in the determinism of habitual criminal conduct of the amoral person) (p. 447-454).
Revista de la Escuela de estudios penitenciarios. Madrid. 6th year, April-July 1950, no. 61-64.
Jean Graven, El derecho penal sovietico (Soviet criminal law) (no. 61, p. 5-9; no. 62, p. 5-13; no. 63, p. 5-12; no. 64, p. 5-21).-Luis Valterra, "Euthanasia": Eutanasia y delitos eutandsicos (Euthanasia ... ) (no. 61, p. 21-34). A. de la Parra, Delincuencia y personalidad. De Lombroso al psicoandlisis (Delinquency and personality. From Lombroso to
psycho-analysis) (no. 5, p. 22-29).
Revue de criminologie et de police technique. Geneva. vol. 4, no. 3, July/Sep. 1950.
G. Heuyer, Histoire des doctrines en criminology (History of the doctrines
in criminology) (p. 171-182) .- Sverin Versele, Faut-sl punir ou gu~rir les d6linquants anornaux? (Should anormal delinquents be punished or cured?) (p. 182-192) .- H. Walder, Le test de Szondi: Une nouvelle mdthode d'examen psychodiagnostique et sa valeur pour l'instruction p6nale (The Szondi test: a new method of psycho-diagnostic examination and its value for criminal investigation) (p. 207-215).
Revue de droit international de sciences diplomatiques et politiques (The International law review). Geneva. 28th year, no. 2, April/June 1950.
The whole issue deals with the problem of international criminal law. The articles are in French. The titles are here listed in English translation only. V. V. Pella, Observations on a code relating to crimes against peace and the security of humanity (p. 101-120).--R. J. Alfaro, The problem of inter-national criminal jurisdiction) (p. 121-158).-H. Donnedieu de Vabres, The theory of crimes against international law in interstate criminal law
(p. 159-172).-Jean Graven, Fundamental principles of a code for the sup-pression of crimes against peace and the security of humanity) (p. 173-204). Antoine Sottile, The competence of the General assembly for the admission of a state to the United Nations. This article is both in French (p. 205-216) and English (p. 217-228).-Eugene Aroneanu, The crime against humanity and international criminal jurisdiction (p. 229-246).
BOOK RYEVIEWS
Revue de droit p6nal et de criminoloegi. Brussels. 30th year, 1949-50, no. 8. May, 1950; no. 10, July, 1950.
W. P. J. Pompe, Les trois degris du droit pgnal (The three degrees of crim-inal law) (no. 8, p. 799-813).- L. Jimenez de Asua, Le droit p~nal hispano-amricaim en 1949 (Latin American criminal law in 1949) (no. 8, p. 862-874).--J. Y. Dautricourt, Nature et fondement du droit pnal uni?.ersal
(Nature and foundation of universal criminal law) (no. 10, p. 1023-1061). Revue de science criminelle et de droit p6nal compar6. Paris. n. s., 1950. no. 2-3, April/June-July/Sep.
Maurice Patin, La poursuite des crimes (The prosecution of crimes) (no. 2, p. 151-155).-Pierre Cannat, Les nouvelles tendances du droit criminel aux tats-Unis (New tendencies in criminal law in the U.S.A.) (no. 2, p. 157-170).-Jean Graven, Le problame des nouvelles techniques d'investigation au proc~s p&nal (The problem of new techniques in criminal investigation) (no. 3, p. 313-357).
Rivista italiana di diritto penale. Milano. 3d year, u.s., no. 2-3, March/April-May/June 1950.
Giacomo Delitala, Sul progetto preliminare del primo libro del codice penale (The reform of the first book of the criminal code) (no. 2, p. 182-200).-Biagio Petrocelli, Teenicismo e antitecnicismo nel diritto penale (Technicism and antitechnicism in criminal law) (no. 3, p. 285-319).
Schweizerische zeitschrift ffir strafrecht. Revue p6nale suisse. Bern. 65th year, heft 3, 1950.
Friedrich Nowakowski, Das ausmass der schuld (The degree of culpability) (p. 301-331).-Arthur Jost, Zurn avalogieverbot im strafrecht (The pro-hibition of analogies in criminal law) (p. 358-370).
Zeitschrift ffir die gesamte strafrechtswissenschaft. Berlin. vol. 63, heft 1, 1950.
Resumed publication after its suspension in 1944 with vol. 62. W. Gallas, Eduard Kohlrausch zum gediichtnis (In memoriam Eduard Kohlrausch)
(p. 1-12).-H. F. Pfenninger, Schweizerisches strafrecht (Swiss criminal law) (p. 120-130).-Stephan Iurwitz, Diinemark (Denmark), 1942-48. (p. 131-139).-Brynolf Honkasalo, Finnland (Finland), 1941-49 (p. 141-143).
