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Organized crime: Concepts and control
CURRENTPublication ABSTRACTS
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legislators pass laws with insufficient understanding of the problem; this book is therefore a selection of readings to facilitate consideration of the issues and objectives raised by this often controversial subject. The book, after an introduction by the author, is divided into four sections: Retribution, Deterrence, Rehabilitation, and Integrative. The focus of each section is on discussions which argue for, examine, or empirically investigate a particular theory. Contributors include Jerome Hall, H.L.A. Hart, CS. Lewis, Carl Menninger, J.D. Mabbott, Jackson Toby, Sheldon Glueck, Gordon Hawkins, Johs Andenaes, Karl F. Schuessler, K.G. Armstrong, C.W.K. Mundel, C&are Beccaria, William J. Chambliss, Dorothy Miller, Enrico Ferri, Henry Weihofen, Torsten Eriksson, Francis A. Allen, and F. J.O. Coddington.
Justice in Sentencing, Foundation
edited by Leonard Orland and Harold R. Tyler, Jr.
Press, Inc. (170 Old Country, Mineola, New York
11501), 1974, 353 pp., paperback.
This book is a collection of the papers and proceedings of the Sentencing Institute for the Firstand Second Judicial Circuits and thus presents a published account of the views and concerns of professional sentencers and correctional authorities. The Institute’s emphasis was on sentencing objectives, and included representation from academic life, including such disciplines ascriminology and corrections, and representation of the executive and legislative branches of the government, including all United States Attorneys. The collection is divided into four sections. The first section, Institute Proceedings, contains discussions entitled Sentencing Objectives; Lawful Sentences: Prison or Probation; Lawful Sentence: If Prison, How Much; Collegial Sentencing or Sentence Review; Plea Bargaining; and The Courtsand the Parole Board. The second section, Institute Remarks, contains addresses by Russell Oswald, the New York Commissioner of Corrections, and Arthur Lyman, General Counsel of the Attica Commission. The third section, Papers Presented, contains six papers which deal generally with the areas of variation in prison and probation sentencing, particular sentencing studies, plea bargaining, factors to take into account in sentencing, and sentencing alternatives. The fourth section, Reference Papers and Reports, contains various sections of the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration and Justice’s Task Force Report and also the ABA standards on Sentencing Alternatives and Appellate Review of Sentences. A bibliography and list of Sentencing Institute participants are also included.
Organized Crime: Concepts and Control by Denny F. Pace and Jimmie Prentice-Hall,
Inc. (Englewood
C. Styles.
Cliffs, New Jersey), 1975, 329 pp., hardcover.
Pace is in the Safety Education Program, Texas A&M University, and Styles is Vice-Chancellor, Tarrant County Junior College. Their basic text is addressed to law enforcement officers and lay citizens and discusses points of weaknesses in the system of control of organized crime, brings together data that supports the existence of organized criminal groups, and supports the contention that only with adequate citizen awareness and participation can any form of control be successful. The book consists of 16 chapters: The Relationships of Organized Crime to the Community Social Structure, Symptoms of Organized Crime, Political Influences in Organized Crime Enforcement, Role of the Legal System in Organized Crime Control, Organization and Management Problems for Organized Crime Control, Intelligence Gathering and Dissemination, Methods for Organized Crime Enforcement, Gambling, Prostitution, Organized Crime and Drug Traffic, Obscenity and Pornography, Organized Crime of a White Collar Nature, Organized Crime and Business Transactions, Militant Groups: A Force in Organized Crime, Education and Training for Organized Crime Control, and In Retrospect. Appendicescontain information on categories of criminal activity,
376
CURRENT PUBLICATION ABSTRACTS
the 1970 Organized Crime Control Act, computer access to organized crime information, cue sheet. A bibliography and index are also included.
and a sample
CorrecGons: Problems and Prospects, edited by David M. Petersen and Charles W. Thomas. Prentice-Hall,
Inc. (Englewood
Cliffs, New Jersey
07632), 1975, 303 pp., paperback-$7.50.
Petersen is a professor at Georgia State University and Thomas is a professor at the College of William and Mary. The authors state in their preface that this collection of readings is aimed at beginning students of corrections in order to make them aware of the major criticisms that confront the field. The 23 selections are organized into four parts: Challenge, Reform, and American Penalogy; Confinement, Inmates, and Prison Problems; Treatment in Institutions in the Community; and Future Directions for Correction.
The Criminologist:
Crime and the Criminal,
by Charles E. Reasons.
Goodyear Publishing Co., Inc. (15115 Sunset Boulevard, Pacific Palisades, Glifornia 413 pp., paperback-$6.95.
90272), 1974,
The author, a professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, states in his preface, “cursory examination of books of readings in criminology will reveal that they are largely a reflection of the writing in criminology texts.” Reasons attempts to correct this imbalance by focusing on contemporary issues and analyses which are often missing from the “normal” criminology text. He intended this book to be a complement, rather than a repetition of the traditional text. The book contains 18 articles and is divided into six parts: Social Thought and Social Structure: The Criminologist, Crime and the Criminal; Law and the Making of Criminals; Political Crime: Criminal Politics; Corporate Crime: The Dirty Collar; Controlling the Controllers; and Correcting Corrections. Footnoted introductions to each of these sections are provided by the author to provide a focus for each section’s articles.
Corrections: McNamara.
Problems of Punishment and Rehabilitation,
Praeger Publishers, hardcover-$12.50.
Inc.
(111 Fourth
Avenue,
edited by Edward Sagarin and Donal E.
New York,
New York
lOOOS), 1973, 170 pp.,
Sagarin is President-elect of the American Society of Criminology and McNamara teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. This book is based on papers delivered at the Second Inter-American Congress of Criminology held in Caracas, Venezuela in 1972. It is made up of 16 papers and covers the topics of correctional approaches and problems, social planning, treating offenders, crises and control, contingency management, correctional management, short-term incarceration, homosexual and drug behavior, correctional change, classification, therapeutic community, deterrent effect of capital punishment, research information systems, parole prediction, rejection and recidivism, and the ex-offender in a correctional setting.
375
legislators pass laws with insufficient understanding of the problem; this book is therefore a selection of readings to facilitate consideration of the issues and objectives raised by this often controversial subject. The book, after an introduction by the author, is divided into four sections: Retribution, Deterrence, Rehabilitation, and Integrative. The focus of each section is on discussions which argue for, examine, or empirically investigate a particular theory. Contributors include Jerome Hall, H.L.A. Hart, CS. Lewis, Carl Menninger, J.D. Mabbott, Jackson Toby, Sheldon Glueck, Gordon Hawkins, Johs Andenaes, Karl F. Schuessler, K.G. Armstrong, C.W.K. Mundel, C&are Beccaria, William J. Chambliss, Dorothy Miller, Enrico Ferri, Henry Weihofen, Torsten Eriksson, Francis A. Allen, and F. J.O. Coddington.
Justice in Sentencing, Foundation
edited by Leonard Orland and Harold R. Tyler, Jr.
Press, Inc. (170 Old Country, Mineola, New York
11501), 1974, 353 pp., paperback.
This book is a collection of the papers and proceedings of the Sentencing Institute for the Firstand Second Judicial Circuits and thus presents a published account of the views and concerns of professional sentencers and correctional authorities. The Institute’s emphasis was on sentencing objectives, and included representation from academic life, including such disciplines ascriminology and corrections, and representation of the executive and legislative branches of the government, including all United States Attorneys. The collection is divided into four sections. The first section, Institute Proceedings, contains discussions entitled Sentencing Objectives; Lawful Sentences: Prison or Probation; Lawful Sentence: If Prison, How Much; Collegial Sentencing or Sentence Review; Plea Bargaining; and The Courtsand the Parole Board. The second section, Institute Remarks, contains addresses by Russell Oswald, the New York Commissioner of Corrections, and Arthur Lyman, General Counsel of the Attica Commission. The third section, Papers Presented, contains six papers which deal generally with the areas of variation in prison and probation sentencing, particular sentencing studies, plea bargaining, factors to take into account in sentencing, and sentencing alternatives. The fourth section, Reference Papers and Reports, contains various sections of the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration and Justice’s Task Force Report and also the ABA standards on Sentencing Alternatives and Appellate Review of Sentences. A bibliography and list of Sentencing Institute participants are also included.
Organized Crime: Concepts and Control by Denny F. Pace and Jimmie Prentice-Hall,
Inc. (Englewood
C. Styles.
Cliffs, New Jersey), 1975, 329 pp., hardcover.
Pace is in the Safety Education Program, Texas A&M University, and Styles is Vice-Chancellor, Tarrant County Junior College. Their basic text is addressed to law enforcement officers and lay citizens and discusses points of weaknesses in the system of control of organized crime, brings together data that supports the existence of organized criminal groups, and supports the contention that only with adequate citizen awareness and participation can any form of control be successful. The book consists of 16 chapters: The Relationships of Organized Crime to the Community Social Structure, Symptoms of Organized Crime, Political Influences in Organized Crime Enforcement, Role of the Legal System in Organized Crime Control, Organization and Management Problems for Organized Crime Control, Intelligence Gathering and Dissemination, Methods for Organized Crime Enforcement, Gambling, Prostitution, Organized Crime and Drug Traffic, Obscenity and Pornography, Organized Crime of a White Collar Nature, Organized Crime and Business Transactions, Militant Groups: A Force in Organized Crime, Education and Training for Organized Crime Control, and In Retrospect. Appendicescontain information on categories of criminal activity,
376
CURRENT PUBLICATION ABSTRACTS
the 1970 Organized Crime Control Act, computer access to organized crime information, cue sheet. A bibliography and index are also included.
and a sample
CorrecGons: Problems and Prospects, edited by David M. Petersen and Charles W. Thomas. Prentice-Hall,
Inc. (Englewood
Cliffs, New Jersey
07632), 1975, 303 pp., paperback-$7.50.
Petersen is a professor at Georgia State University and Thomas is a professor at the College of William and Mary. The authors state in their preface that this collection of readings is aimed at beginning students of corrections in order to make them aware of the major criticisms that confront the field. The 23 selections are organized into four parts: Challenge, Reform, and American Penalogy; Confinement, Inmates, and Prison Problems; Treatment in Institutions in the Community; and Future Directions for Correction.
The Criminologist:
Crime and the Criminal,
by Charles E. Reasons.
Goodyear Publishing Co., Inc. (15115 Sunset Boulevard, Pacific Palisades, Glifornia 413 pp., paperback-$6.95.
90272), 1974,
The author, a professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, states in his preface, “cursory examination of books of readings in criminology will reveal that they are largely a reflection of the writing in criminology texts.” Reasons attempts to correct this imbalance by focusing on contemporary issues and analyses which are often missing from the “normal” criminology text. He intended this book to be a complement, rather than a repetition of the traditional text. The book contains 18 articles and is divided into six parts: Social Thought and Social Structure: The Criminologist, Crime and the Criminal; Law and the Making of Criminals; Political Crime: Criminal Politics; Corporate Crime: The Dirty Collar; Controlling the Controllers; and Correcting Corrections. Footnoted introductions to each of these sections are provided by the author to provide a focus for each section’s articles.
Corrections: McNamara.
Problems of Punishment and Rehabilitation,
Praeger Publishers, hardcover-$12.50.
Inc.
(111 Fourth
Avenue,
edited by Edward Sagarin and Donal E.
New York,
New York
lOOOS), 1973, 170 pp.,
Sagarin is President-elect of the American Society of Criminology and McNamara teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. This book is based on papers delivered at the Second Inter-American Congress of Criminology held in Caracas, Venezuela in 1972. It is made up of 16 papers and covers the topics of correctional approaches and problems, social planning, treating offenders, crises and control, contingency management, correctional management, short-term incarceration, homosexual and drug behavior, correctional change, classification, therapeutic community, deterrent effect of capital punishment, research information systems, parole prediction, rejection and recidivism, and the ex-offender in a correctional setting.