Book Reviews

Book Reviews in this articles INEQUALITY, CRIME, AND PUBLIC POLICY. ByJohn Braithwaite. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979. Pp. 332. HARLOTS, WHORES, & HOOKERS. by Hilary Evans. New York: Taplinger, 1979, Pp. 225. $12.95. PRISONS IN TURMOIL. BY John Irwin. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980, Pp. 277. $6.95. BEATING A RAP? DEFENIDANTS FOUND INCOMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL. By Henry J. Steadman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Pp. 144. $13.00     

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Book reviewed in this article:
JUSTICE RUTLEDGE AND THE BRIGHT CONSTELLATION F owler V. H arper , Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company, Inc., 1965, pp. xxv + 406, $6.95.
THE NEW DEAL AND THE PROBLEM OF MONOPOLY E llis W. H awley , Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1966, pp. xv & 525, $10.00.
POWERS OF ATTORNEY L ouis A uchincloss , Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Company, 1963, pp. 280, $4.50.
LAWYERS IN THE MAKING S eymour W arkov with J oseph Z elan , Chicago, Illinois: Aldine Publishing Company, 1965, pp. 171, $5.00.
THE TRIAL OF JACK RUBY J ohn K aplan and J on R. W altz , New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965, 392 pp., $7.95.
POLITICAL PARTICIPATION L ester W. M ilbrath , Chicago: Rand-McNally, 1965, pp.—, $3.50, $1.75 (paperback).
SOUTHERN JUSTICE L eon F riedman , New York, Pantheon Books Inc., 1965, $5.95.     

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Books Reviewed in this Article:
THE PRICE OF PERFECT JUSTICE, Macklin Fleming. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1974. Pp. 196.
PERSPECTIVES OF AMERICAN LAW, John Neil Story and Lynn M. Ward. St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co., 1974. Pp. 532.
BEFORE THE LAW: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LEGAL PROCESS, J. Bonsignore, E. Katsh, P. d'Errico, R. Pipkin, S. Arons. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. Pp. 388.
LAW FOR BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT, Gail McK. Beckman,Walter F. Berdal, and David G. Brainard. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975. Pp. 502.
REGULATING NEW DRUGS, Richard L. Landau, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago, Center for Policy Study, 1973. Pp.197.     

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A Handbook for Cultural Trustees: A Guide to the Role, Responsibilities and Functions of Boards of Trustees of Cultural Organizations in Canada , Marion Paquet, with Rory Ralston and Donna Cardinal. Waterloo, Ont.: University of Waterloo Press, 1987. 75 pages, $22.95. Reviewed by Brann J. Wry.

Bureaucratizing the Muse: Public Funds and the Culture Worker , Steven C. Dubin. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987. 226 pages, index. Reviewed by George C. Koch and Joan Jeffri.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Lives of the Lord Chancellors , 1885–1940. By R. F. V. Heuston On Justice in Society . By Morris Ginsberg The Disinherited and the Law. By Dagobert D. Runes The Law of Quasi -Contract . By S. J. Stoljar , LL.B., LL.M., PH.D. Conveyancing Contracts , Conditions of Sale and Title . By J. T. Farrand , LL.B., Solicitor The Borderland of Criminal Justice . Essays in Law and Criminology. By Francis A. Allen , University Professor in the Law School at the University of Chicago Crime and the Community . A Survey of Penal Policy in New Zealand Völkerrecht . By Ignaz Seidl -Hohenveldern Federal Conflict of Interest Law . By Bayless Manning     

Good faith mistakes and the exclusionary rule

Frank Anechiarico and James B. Jacobs, The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 274 pp.     

The link between dyslexic traits, executive functioning, impulsivity and social self-esteem among an offender and non-offender sample

PURPOSE: The current study had two core aims; first to explore the link between dyslexic traits and other aspects of functioning among a sample of offenders and non-offenders (students); and, second, to explore if dyslexic traits were over-represented among offenders. A subsidiary aim was to explore if the results were influenced by an offender's current index offence (i.e. violent versus non-violent). METHOD: Ninety-two adult male participants took part: sixty offenders and thirty-two non-offenders. All completed a structured interview assessing dyslexic traits, namely the Dyslexia Adult Screening Test battery (DAST: Fawcett and Nicholson, 1998). Participants also completed a measure of executive functioning (Benton Word Fluency Test, Benton, A. (1968) Differential behavioural effects in frontal lobe disease. Neuropsychologica, 6, 53-60), impulsivity (Barratt Impulsiveness Scale: BIS-II, Barratt, E.S. (1994), Impulsiveness and Aggression. In J. Monahan and H.J. Steadman (Eds.), Violence and Mental Disorder: Developments in Risk Assessment (pp.61-79). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.) and social self-esteem (Texas Social Behavior Inventory: TSBI, Helmreich and Stapp, 1974). RESULTS: Offenders presented with more dyslexic traits than non-offenders, with those with violent index offences presenting with more traits than those with non-violent index offences. Offenders performed poorly on assessments of executive functioning when compared with non-offenders. Dyslexic traits were predicted most significantly by executive functioning difficulties followed by decreased social self-esteem. There was a trend for increased impulsivity to correlate with increased dyslexic traits. Dyslexic traits were also predictive of membership to the offender group whereas impulsivity, executive functioning or social self-esteem was not. CONCLUSION: Preliminary evidence is provided for increased dyslexic traits among offenders compared to non-offenders. The study highlights the correlates of dyslexic traits. The implications of these findings for future research are outlined.     

Older and more recent evidence on racial discrimination in sentencing

Examination of previous studies of racial discrimination in sentencing indicates more widespread evidence of discrimination than allowed in three separate reviews by M. J. Hindelang [(1969).J. Crim. Law Criminal. Police Sci. 60: 306–313], J. Hagan [(1975). InThe Aldine Crime and Justice Annual, Aldine, Chicago], and G. Kleck [(1981).Am. Social. Rev. 46: 783-805]. It is not the case, as these reviewers suggest, that racial discrimination is a thing of the past, shown almost exclusively for capital offences from the American South, and often supported only because relevant legal variables were not controlled. In addition, analysis of recent (1977) data from a non-Southern state (Pennsylvania) covering noncapital offenses and including recommended controls shows that evidence of racial disparity in sentencing is revealed more clearly when separate analyses are conducted within levels of urbanization. The labeling perspective and conflict theory guide our interpretation.     

Review essay / lifeboat law

A. W. Brian Simpson, Cannibalism and the Common Law Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984     

Review essay / The precinct confessional

Peter Brooks, Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000, x + 207 pp.     

Book review/reform and punishment

Michael Tonry and Franklin E. Zimring, eds., Reform and Punishment: Essays on Criminal Sentencing Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, 1983, viii + 210 pp.     

Pursuing justice in a free society: Part one—power vs. liberty

John Kaplan, The Hardest Drug: Heroin and Public Policy Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983, xi + 247 pp.     

>The role of subjectivity in criminal justice classification and prediction methods

Leo Katz, Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987, vii + 343 pp.     

Measurement and Other Errors in County-Level UCR Data: A Reply to Lott and Whitley

Lott and Whitley note that our analyses of the errors in the county-level UCR data used in More Guns, Less Crime (J. R. Lott, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1998, 2000) ignore the fact that all data have measurement error, that the largest errors were in counties with low populations, and that population-weighted regressions were used. We agree that this mitigates some of the effects of the errors, but does not take them fully into account. We also note that this is but one of the problems associated with the analysis. We therefore find no reason to alter our original conclusion, that in their current condition, county-level UCR crime statistics cannot be used for evaluating the effects of changes in policy.     

Overstepping police authority

Bernard Harcourt, Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, xiii + 278 pp.     

O.J.'s defense: A reductio ad absurdum of the economics of Coase and Posner

A reductio ad absurdum takes the principles of a doctrine, applies them exactly as their creators did only to an entirely different subject and with horrendous results, and thus shows what absurd conclusions are logically compatible with the original thesis. This article applies the tenets of the Chicago law and economics tradition, as adumbrated by two of its most distinguished practitioners, Coase and Posner. It shows that on the basis of this canon a case can be made out for freeing O.J. Simpson—even if he did indeed kill his wife. The article is an attempt to show that the libertarian reliance on personal and private property rights is a much more robust thesis than the Chicago precept of wealth maximization.     

Review essay / mental illness and criminal justice

Norval Morris, Madness and the Criminal Law Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982, 235 pp.     

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MY BLOODY LIFE: THE MAKING OF A LATIN KING. Sanchez, Reymundo. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 2000. Reviewed by Zelma Henriques     

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Books Reviewed in this article:
C.P.A. LAW REVIEW, FIFTH EDITION Joseph L. Frascona. Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1977. Pp. 915.
THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS Robert N. Corley, Robert L. Black and 0. Lee Reed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977. Pp. 642.
LABOR LAW AND LEGISLATION, 5th Edition A. Howard Myers and David P. Twomey. Cincinnati: South- Western Publishing Co., 1975. Pp. 571.
CASES IN LABOR LAW Duke Nordlinger Stern & Joseph P. Yaney. Columbus: Grid, Inc., 1977. Pp. 383.
PERSONAL LAW Norbert J. Mietus and Bill W. West. Chicago: Science Research Associates, 1975. Pp. 464.
FEDERAL LAW OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION IN A NUTSHELL Mack A. Player. St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co., 1976. Pp. 320.     

Law and Aging: Special Persons, Special Treatment?

Miriam K. Aronson (ed.) and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association, Understanding Alzheimer's Disease . Charles Scribner's Sons: New York (1988).
Robert N. Brown with Legal Counsel for the Elderly, The Rights of Older Persons (Second Edition). Southern Illinois University Press: Carbondale, IL(1989).
John J. Regan with Legal Counsel for the Elderly, Your Legal Rights in Later Life . American Association of Retired Persons and Scott, Foresman and Company: Washington, D.C. and Glenview, IL (1989).
Ira S. Schneider & Ezra Huber, Financial Planning for Long-Term Care . Human Sciences Press: New York (1989).
James E. Thornton & Earl R. Winkler (eds.), Ethics and Aging: The Right to Live, The Right to Die . University of British Columbia Press: Vancouver, B.C., Canada (1988).
Mark H. Waymack & George A. Taler, Medical Ethics and The Elderly . Pluribus Press: Chicago (1988).