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and policy potentials effected by focusing on the locational dimension. Individual authors present ten papers on the subject. An introduction and an afterword provide cohesion for the volume. Traditional criminological history is discussed and places environmental criminology in perspective. That the fourth dimension must be incorporated in order to develop an integrated theory of crime is emphasized. Notes and references complete the volume. (OSB) Crime Dictionary by Ralph DeSola. Facts on File Publications (460 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10016), 1982, 219 pp., hardcover-$22.50. In 219 pages DeSola has produced a reference source that defines terms used by criminals and law enforcement professionals. The book is an exhaustive compilation of over 10,000 terms. There are four sections: The A-Zurich Account contains the greatest collection of terms (legal, medical, and psychiatric) relating to crime and drug addiction and used in law enforcement. This section also contains relevant abbreviations, weapons, nicknames of prisons, terms relating to white-collar crime, criminal slang, and slang of the drug culture. Smaller sections provide foreign terms and place-name nicknames arranged in the same format. Finally, a selected sources section provides a bibliographic listing, including fiction and nonfiction. (OSB) White Collar’ Crime: An Agenda for Research edited by Herbert Edelhertz and Thomas D. Overcast. D.C. Heath and Company (Lexington Book Division, 125 Spring Street, Lexington, Massachusetts 02173), 1982, 235 pp., hardcover-$17.95. White-collar crime, an important, current issue in criminology, is examined. Because the study of white-collar crime presents unique challenges for researchers, a series of papers on central-core issues in this field were commissioned, and a colloquium was
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held at which these papers were presented. This volume is a result of that effort. The problems of studying white-collar crime are varied. For a period of time, 1940-1970, limited attention was given to the topic. Different disciplines and interest groups examined the issue from their perspective, and integrated theory, policy, or findings did not result. Determining the character and nature of white-collar crime has been particularly perplexing. There is a paucity of data because of the covert nature of this kind of crime. Currently, however, there is strong media and public interest in the topic, and more opportunities for research are present. There is also a greater need for research because there is more need to control white-collar crime, and control can only be built on a sound knowledge base. This volume contains eight individually authored chapters on all of the issues mentioned above. Introduction is made by editor Edelhertz. Meier and Short take up the issue of consequences of white-collar crime. Corporate violations of the Corrupt Practices Act is examined by Ermann and Lundman. The role of law enforcement in the fight against white-collar crime is discussed by Stotland, and the regulatory role in the containment of corporate illegality by Thomas follows. Dinitz focuses on the multidisciplinary approaches to white-collar crime. The interrelationships among remedies for white-collar criminal behavior (Stier) and a research and action agenda with respect to white-collar crime (Geis) are Chapters 7 and 8. An appendix, bibliography, and index complete the book. (OSB)
Governing through Courts edited by Richard A.L. Gambitta, Marilynn L. May, and James C. Foster. Sage Publications, Inc. (275 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California 90212), 1981, 319 pp.. softcover-$9.95. That American courts do make law is an accepted fact. This is accomplished not
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only through the interstices of statutory codes but also through the interpretation of statutes, administrative rules, executive orders, and prior judicial decisions. The courts exercise the power of judicial review, scrutinize the constitutionality of legislative and executive actions, and sometimes devise detailed positive rules, standards and formulae prescribing governmental behavior and establishing official state policy. Not to be omitted are litigation activities that decide individual disputes brought before them. These establish legal rules and design social remedies that have far-reaching consequences. This volume explores the courts in their expanded power of governing administration. Finding their decisions are followed by noncomplicance, evasion, or delay, the courts oversee on a regular basis and take over, on occasion, the administration of public institutions. They also mandate structural and operational reforms within public bureaucracies. Should courts be concerned about the difficult social and economic implications of their decisions? If courts are meant to articulate and enforce the rights our government guarantees each person, should courts hesitate in performing their governing functions because trouble will ensue in social and economic trials? How, how much, how capably, and how legitimately do courts govern? The book address these questions. Divided into three parts, individually authored articles focus on specific issues of governance. Each part contains an introduction that sets the focus for the succeeding readings. Notes and appropriate references follow each article. Part I provides an overview of the role of courts in the governing process. Part II looks at courts from a consumer’s perspective. It addresses the roles courts play in specific areas and highlights how courts govern directly. Part III explains how courts govern in more circuitous and subtle ways, and examines the roles that litigation itself can play in the formation and implementation of governmental policy. (OSB)
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Society, Crime, and Criminal Behavior by Don C. Gibbons. Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632), 1982, 561 pp., hardcover$20.95. In the fourth edition of his book, Gibbons has produced a considerably revised text. Containing 23 chapters, the book examines crime, its place in current society, and criminal behavior. Although unsupportable claims have been replaced by recent evidence, the text continues as an introduction to the criminological enterprise, a branch of sociology that studies law making, law breaking, and social response to violations of criminal law. The biological forces or psychological pressures that are evident in criminology are given attention in this edition. The central themes that criminality is found everywhere in our society and that crime is the product of criminogenic features run throughout the edition and provide cohesiveness to it. The book also argues that criminals are most often normal individuals responding to economic pressures or other features of a complex society rather than flawed individuals whose law breaking can be attributed to biological or psychological explanations. In this edition attention is paid to radical-Marxist theories concerning criminal law and criminality. All of the sections have been updated with relevant theoretical developments and research studies that have occurred in the last few years. Some chapters have been relocated. Author and subject indexes complete the text. (OSB)
Sociology of Delinquency edited by Gary F. Jensen. Sage Publications, Inc. (275 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California 90212), 1981, 144 pp., softcover-$7.50. Volume 22 in the Sage Research Progress Series in Criminology focuses on issues related to the sociology of delinquency relevant in the 1980s. Each of the nine individually authored papers was selected
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and policy potentials effected by focusing on the locational dimension. Individual authors present ten papers on the subject. An introduction and an afterword provide cohesion for the volume. Traditional criminological history is discussed and places environmental criminology in perspective. That the fourth dimension must be incorporated in order to develop an integrated theory of crime is emphasized. Notes and references complete the volume. (OSB) Crime Dictionary by Ralph DeSola. Facts on File Publications (460 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10016), 1982, 219 pp., hardcover-$22.50. In 219 pages DeSola has produced a reference source that defines terms used by criminals and law enforcement professionals. The book is an exhaustive compilation of over 10,000 terms. There are four sections: The A-Zurich Account contains the greatest collection of terms (legal, medical, and psychiatric) relating to crime and drug addiction and used in law enforcement. This section also contains relevant abbreviations, weapons, nicknames of prisons, terms relating to white-collar crime, criminal slang, and slang of the drug culture. Smaller sections provide foreign terms and place-name nicknames arranged in the same format. Finally, a selected sources section provides a bibliographic listing, including fiction and nonfiction. (OSB) White Collar’ Crime: An Agenda for Research edited by Herbert Edelhertz and Thomas D. Overcast. D.C. Heath and Company (Lexington Book Division, 125 Spring Street, Lexington, Massachusetts 02173), 1982, 235 pp., hardcover-$17.95. White-collar crime, an important, current issue in criminology, is examined. Because the study of white-collar crime presents unique challenges for researchers, a series of papers on central-core issues in this field were commissioned, and a colloquium was
ABSTRACTS
held at which these papers were presented. This volume is a result of that effort. The problems of studying white-collar crime are varied. For a period of time, 1940-1970, limited attention was given to the topic. Different disciplines and interest groups examined the issue from their perspective, and integrated theory, policy, or findings did not result. Determining the character and nature of white-collar crime has been particularly perplexing. There is a paucity of data because of the covert nature of this kind of crime. Currently, however, there is strong media and public interest in the topic, and more opportunities for research are present. There is also a greater need for research because there is more need to control white-collar crime, and control can only be built on a sound knowledge base. This volume contains eight individually authored chapters on all of the issues mentioned above. Introduction is made by editor Edelhertz. Meier and Short take up the issue of consequences of white-collar crime. Corporate violations of the Corrupt Practices Act is examined by Ermann and Lundman. The role of law enforcement in the fight against white-collar crime is discussed by Stotland, and the regulatory role in the containment of corporate illegality by Thomas follows. Dinitz focuses on the multidisciplinary approaches to white-collar crime. The interrelationships among remedies for white-collar criminal behavior (Stier) and a research and action agenda with respect to white-collar crime (Geis) are Chapters 7 and 8. An appendix, bibliography, and index complete the book. (OSB)
Governing through Courts edited by Richard A.L. Gambitta, Marilynn L. May, and James C. Foster. Sage Publications, Inc. (275 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California 90212), 1981, 319 pp.. softcover-$9.95. That American courts do make law is an accepted fact. This is accomplished not
CURRENT PUBLICATIONS ABSTRACTS
only through the interstices of statutory codes but also through the interpretation of statutes, administrative rules, executive orders, and prior judicial decisions. The courts exercise the power of judicial review, scrutinize the constitutionality of legislative and executive actions, and sometimes devise detailed positive rules, standards and formulae prescribing governmental behavior and establishing official state policy. Not to be omitted are litigation activities that decide individual disputes brought before them. These establish legal rules and design social remedies that have far-reaching consequences. This volume explores the courts in their expanded power of governing administration. Finding their decisions are followed by noncomplicance, evasion, or delay, the courts oversee on a regular basis and take over, on occasion, the administration of public institutions. They also mandate structural and operational reforms within public bureaucracies. Should courts be concerned about the difficult social and economic implications of their decisions? If courts are meant to articulate and enforce the rights our government guarantees each person, should courts hesitate in performing their governing functions because trouble will ensue in social and economic trials? How, how much, how capably, and how legitimately do courts govern? The book address these questions. Divided into three parts, individually authored articles focus on specific issues of governance. Each part contains an introduction that sets the focus for the succeeding readings. Notes and appropriate references follow each article. Part I provides an overview of the role of courts in the governing process. Part II looks at courts from a consumer’s perspective. It addresses the roles courts play in specific areas and highlights how courts govern directly. Part III explains how courts govern in more circuitous and subtle ways, and examines the roles that litigation itself can play in the formation and implementation of governmental policy. (OSB)
429
Society, Crime, and Criminal Behavior by Don C. Gibbons. Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632), 1982, 561 pp., hardcover$20.95. In the fourth edition of his book, Gibbons has produced a considerably revised text. Containing 23 chapters, the book examines crime, its place in current society, and criminal behavior. Although unsupportable claims have been replaced by recent evidence, the text continues as an introduction to the criminological enterprise, a branch of sociology that studies law making, law breaking, and social response to violations of criminal law. The biological forces or psychological pressures that are evident in criminology are given attention in this edition. The central themes that criminality is found everywhere in our society and that crime is the product of criminogenic features run throughout the edition and provide cohesiveness to it. The book also argues that criminals are most often normal individuals responding to economic pressures or other features of a complex society rather than flawed individuals whose law breaking can be attributed to biological or psychological explanations. In this edition attention is paid to radical-Marxist theories concerning criminal law and criminality. All of the sections have been updated with relevant theoretical developments and research studies that have occurred in the last few years. Some chapters have been relocated. Author and subject indexes complete the text. (OSB)
Sociology of Delinquency edited by Gary F. Jensen. Sage Publications, Inc. (275 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California 90212), 1981, 144 pp., softcover-$7.50. Volume 22 in the Sage Research Progress Series in Criminology focuses on issues related to the sociology of delinquency relevant in the 1980s. Each of the nine individually authored papers was selected