Reviews: Editorial commentary

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Home Truths about Child Sexual Abuse: Influencing Policy and Practice: A reader Catherine Itzin (4) Routledge, London, 2000. ISBN0415 15261 5 (hbk) f55.0O/f18.990415 152623 (pbk) £18.99

Child Sexual Assault: Feminist perspectives Pat Cox, Sheila Kenhaw andJoy Trotter (eds) Palgrave, London. 2000. 248pp. ISBN 0 333 77153 2. (hbk) £45.00

Athletes and Acquaintance Rape Jeffrey R Benedict Sage (Violence Against Women Series). London, 1998. 120pp ISBN 0 7619 0966 4 (hbk) f47.00 / 0 7619 0967 2 (pbk) £19.00

Whistleblowing in the Social Services: Public accountability and professional practice Geoffrey Hunt (ed.), Foreword by Allan Levy, QC Edward Arnold, London, 1998. 278pp. ISBN 0 340 65245 4 (pbk) £18.99     

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SEXUALITY IN ADOLESCENCE Susan Moore & Doreen Rosenthal Routledge, London, 1993, pp241 £12.99 ISBN 0-415-07528-9

CONFRONTING RAPE: THE FEMINIST ANTI-RAPE MOVEMENT AND THE STATE Nancy A. Matthews Routledge, London, 1994, pp188 £12.99, ISBN 0 415 06491 0

CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: A GUIDE FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Celia Doyle Chapman & Hall, London, 1994, pp290 £15.99 ISBN 0 412 46960 X

NOT IN FRONT OF THE GROWN-UPS: A STUDY OF THE SOCIAL AND SEXUAL LIVES OF 15 AND 16 YEAR OLDS Julia Hirst Pavic Publications, Sheffield, 1994, pp 112 £7.50 ISBN 0 86339 4345

SEXUAL OFFENDING AGAINST CHILDREN: ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF MALE ABUSERS Tony Morrison, Marcus Erooga and Richard Beckett (eds.) Routledge, London, 1994 £13.99 (paperback) ISBN 415 05505 9     

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Trauma and Memory L M Williams and V L Banyard Sage, 1999, 347pp £19.99 (pbk) ISBN 0 7619 0772 6     

Narrative and normativity: Comments on The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial

The Usatges of Barcelona: The Fundamental Law of Catalonia. Donald J. Kagay (Trans. and ed.). Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1995. xii + 140pp. (inc. Index). £28.40 hb/£12.95 pb. ISBN 0 8122 3256 9/0 8122 1535 4.

Medieval Canon Law. James A. Brundage. London and New York. 1995. Longman, xii + 260 pp. (inc. Index). £12.99 pb. ISBN 0 582 09356 2.

Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England. J. Kermode and G. Walker (eds.). London. 1994. UCL Press, viii + 216pp. (incl. Index). £35 hb/£11.95 pb. IBSN 1 85728 140 3/1 85728 141 1.

Law and English Railway Capitalism 1825–1875. R.W. Kostal. Oxford. 1994. Clarendon Press, xii + 417 pp. (incl. Index) £45 hb. ISBN 0 19 825671 X.

Victorian Insolvency; Bankruptcy, Imprisonment for Debt, and Company Winding‐Up in Nineteenth‐Century England. V. Markham Lester. Oxford. 1995. Clarendon Press, xiii + 354 pp. (incl. Index). £40 hb. ISBN 0 19 820518 X.     

Handbook of the Psychology of Interviewing

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Handbook of the Psychology of Interviewing. By Memon. A. and Bull, R. (Eds). Chichester: Wiley, (1999). ISBN 0-471-97443-9 (hbk) $65.00.

Investigative Interviewing: Psychology and Practice. By Milne, R. and Bull, R. Chichester: Wiley, (1999). ISBN 0-471-98728-X (hbk) $34.95; ISBN 0-471-98729-8 (pbk) $17.99.

Detecting Lies and Deceit: The Psychology of Lying and the Implications for Professional Practice. By Vrij, A. Chichester: Wiley, (2000). ISBN 0-471-8516-X (pbk) $24.95.     

The hidden origins of enorm lesion

Plato's Penal Code: Tradition, Controversy and Reform in Greek Penology. Trevor J. Saunders. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1991. xvii + 414pp. (incl. Indexes). £50 hb. ISBN 0 19 814893 3.

Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges from the time of Cicero to the time of Ulpian. Susan Treggiari. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1991. xv + 578pp. (incl. Indexes). £65 hb. ISBN 0 19 814890 9.

Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome. Edited by Beryl Rawson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. xiv + 252pp. (incl. Index). £35 hb. ISBN 0 19 814918 2.

Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe. J.A. Brundage. University of Chicago Press, 1987. xxiv + 674pp. (incl. Index). £21.50 pb. ISBN 0 226 07784 5.

Church Courts, Sex and Marriage, in England, 1570–1640. M. Ingram. Past and Present Publications, Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiii + 412pp. (incl. Index). £45 hb. ISBN 0 521 386551.

The Medieval Canon Law. Teaching, Literature and Transmission. (The Sandars Lectures in Bibliography: 1987–1988). Dorothy M. Owen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xii + 82pp. £25 hb. ISBN 0 521 39313 9.

Notaries Public in England since the Reformation. C.W. Brooks, R.H. Helmholz and P.G. Stein. Norwich: The Erskine Press for the Society of Public Notaries of London, 1991. ix + 148pp. (incl. Index). £60.00 hb. £29.95 pb. ISBN 1 85297 0340.

The Common Law and English Jurisprudence 1760–1850. Michael Lobban. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. xvi + 315pp. (incl. Index). £35.00 hb. ISBN 019 825293 5.

Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c. 1660–1725. Robert B. Shoemaker. Cambridge: The University Press, 1991. xxviii + 352pp. (incl. Index). £40/$64.50 hb. ISBN 0 521 40082 1.

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, Peter Linebaugh. London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1991. xxvii + 484pp. (incl. Index). £25 hb. ISBN 0 713 99045 7.

American Jurisprudence 1870–1970: A History. James Herget. Houston, Texas: Rice University Press, 1990. x + 367pp. (incl. Index.) $35.00hb. ISBN 0 89256 305 0.

Deutsche Juristen aus fünf Jarhunderten. G. Kleinheyer and J. Schröder. Heidelberg: C.F. Muller, 1989. 415pp. (incl. Index.) DM 34.80 pb.

Quellen zur Reform des Straf‐ und Strafprozessrechts, III Abteilung, NS‐Zeit (1933–1939), Band 1. Edited by J. Regge and W. Schubert et al. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1991. xxi + 648 pp. (incl. Index.) DM 498.

Quellen zur Reform des Straf‐ und Strafprozessrechts, III Abteilung, NS‐Zeit (1933–1939), Band 2, 1 Teil. Edited by J. Regge and W. Schubert et al. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1991. xxxi + 772 pp. (incl. Index.) DM 598.     

Colonial origins of land acquisition law in New South Wales and Queensland

F.W. Maitland. G.R. Elton. London. 1985. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. vii &; 118 pp. (incl. Index). £12.95.

Victorian Prison Lives: English Prison Biography (1830–1914). Philip Priest‐ley. London and New York. 1985. Methuen. xiii &; 311 pp. (incl. index). £25.00.

Christopher St German on Chancery and Statute. J.A. Guy. London. 1985. Selden Society Supplementary series vol. 6. x &; 149 pp. (incl. index). £15.

Imprisonment in England and Wales: A Concise History, Christopher Harding, Bill Hines, Richard Ireland and Philip Rawlings, Beck‐enham. Croom Helm. 1985. xiii &; 308 pp. £25.00.

The Evolution of Law. Alan Watson. Oxford. 1985. Basil Blackwell. xi &; 156 pp. (incl. index). £17.50.

Unequal Access: Women Lawyers in a Changing America. Ronald Chester. Massachusetts. 1985. Bergin &; Garvey Publishers, Inc. viii &; 135 pp.(incl. index). £24.95.

Unequal Laws unto a Savage Race: European Legal Traditions in Arkansas, 1686–1836. Morris S. Arnold. Fayetteville. 1985. University of Arkansas Press, xviii &; 234 pp.

Returns of Strangers in the Metropolis 1593, 1627, 1635, 1639: A Study of an Active Minority. Ed. Irene Scouloudi. London. 1985. The Huguenot Society.

’Without the Law’: Administrative Justice and Legal Pluralism in Nineteenth Century England. H.W. Arthurs. Toronto. 1985. University of Toronto Press, xvi + 312 pp. (incl. index). £20.00.     

Recent legal developments

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LAW OF TRUSTS. By Simon Gardner. [Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1990. First Edition. 250 pp. £25.00 (hardback), £11.95 (paperback).]

EXPLAINING CONSTRUCTIVE TRUSTS. By Gbolahan Elias. [Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1990. First Edition. 177 pp. £25.00 (hardback).]

CHARLESWORTH &; PERCY ON NEGLIGENCE. By R. A. Percy. [Sweet &; Maxwell. Eighth Edition. 1,232 pp. incl. index. £135.00 (hardback).]

CLARITY FOR LAWYERS. By Mark Adler. [The Law Society. 1990. First edition. 128 pp. £10.00 (paperback).]

PLANNING LAW AND PROCEDURE. By A. E. Telling. [Butterworths. Eighth edition. 385 pp. incl. index. £16.95 (paperback).]

PRACTICAL APPROACH TO PLANNING LAW. By V. Moore. [Blackstone Press Ltd. Second edition. 401 pp. incl. index &; appendices. £19.95 (paperback).]

THE EVIDENCE OF CHILDREN. By J. R. Spencer and R. Fun. [Blackstone Press. 1990. 362 pp. £19.50 (paperback).]

CROSS ON EVIDENCE. By C. Tapper. [Butterworths. 1990. Seventh edition. 757 pp. £22.95 (paperback).]

EMPLOYMENT LAW. By C. J. Carr and P. J. Kay. [M. &; E. Handbook. Pitman Publishing. 1990. Fifth edition, xxiv &; 232 pp. (inc. index). £7.99 (paperback).]

REVISION WORKBOOK: LAND LAW. By Gordon Henry.

A PARENTS’ GUIDE TO THE LAW. By Jeannie Mackie and Lesley Taylor [Penguin Books. 1990. 419 pp. (inc. index). £7.99 (paperback).]

A GUIDE TO INHERITANCE CLAIMS. By Nasreen Pearce. [Fourmat Publishing. 1989. 162 pp. £12.95 (paperback).]     

Book reviews

Reckless Legislation: How Lawmakers Ignore the Constitution by Michael A. Bamberger. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000. Pp.ix + 233. $32 hb ISBN 0 8135 2732 5.

An Accidental MP by Martin Bell. London: Viking, 2000. Pp.230 £16.99 hb ISBN 0 670 89231 9.

Politico's Guide to Parliament by Susan Child. London: Politico Publishing, 1999. Pp.vi + 461 £25 hb ISBN 1 902301 23 4.

The European Parliament by Richard Corbett, Francis Jacobs and Michael Shackleton. London: John Harper, 4th edn, 2000. £37.50 hb ISBN 0 953 62782 9; £14.95 pb ISBN 0 953 62781 0.

The C‐Span Revolution by Stephen Frantzich and John Sullivan. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. Pp.xiv + 433. $14.95 pb ISBN 0 8061 3130 6.

Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking by Keith Krehbiel. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp.xvi + 258. £39.55 hb ISBN 0 226 45271 9; £13.50 pb ISBN 0 226 45272 7.

Legislative Enterpreneurship in the U.S. House of Representatives by Gregory Wawro. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp.xiv+193. $39.50 hb ISBN 0 472 11153 1.     

Booking bookies

From Prohibition to Regulation: Bookmaking, Anti‐Gambling and the Law. David Dixon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. xiii + 407pp. (incl. Index). ISBN 0 19 825616 7.

Better Betting with a Decent Feller: Bookmakers, Betting and the British Working Class 1750–1990. Carl Chinn. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991. xiv + 306pp. (incl. Index). £40 hb. ISBN 0 7198 1288 4.

A Bit of a Flutter: Popular Gambling and English Society, c. 1823–1961.

Mark Clapson. Manchester: The University Press, 1992. vii + 232pp. (incl. Index). £35 hb. ISBN 0 7190 3436 1.     

Book Reviews

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Stalkers and their Victims. By Paul E. Mullen, Michele Pathé and Rosemary Purcell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 310 pp. ISBN 0 521 66950 2 (pb).

Violence: Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic. By James Gilligan. London: Jessica Kingsley, 2000. 320 pp. ISBN: 1-85302-842-8 (paperback), €12.95.

Violence, Crime and Mentally Disordered Offenders: Concepts and Methods for Effective Treatment and Prevention. By S. Hodgins and R. Müller-Isberner (Eds.). Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2000. ISBN 0-471-97727-6.     

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THE CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE: CLOSING THE CIRCLE OF INDEPENDENCE. Duke E. Pollard. The Caribbean Law Publishing Company, Limited 2004, 365 pp., 7 Chapters. ISBN 976-8167-41-4. Reviewed by Camillo M. Gonsalves.

CARIBBEAN DRUGS: FROM CRIMINALIZATION TO HARM REDUCTION. Axel Klein, Marcus Day, and Anthony Harriott (eds.). London, UK: Zed Books Limited, Ian Randle Publishers and DrugScope, 2004, 245 pp., ISBN 1-84277-499-9. Reviewed by Wilson R. Palacios.     

Book reviews

The Politics of Central Europe by Attila Ágh. London: Sage Publications Ltd, 1998. Pp.xii + 244. £15.99 pb ISBN 0 7619 5032 X.

Legitimacy and the European Union by David Beetham and Christopher Lord. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman Ltd, 1998. Pp.viii + 144. £11.99 pb ISBN 0 582 30489 X.

Party Discipline and Parliamentary Government edited by Shaun Bowler, David M. Farrell and Richard S. Katz. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1999. Pp.ix + 304. $59.95 hb ISBN 0 8142 0796 0; $22.50 pb ISBN 0 8142 5000 9.

Conscience and Parliament edited by Philip Cowley. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp.204 £35 hb ISBN 0 7146 4836 1; £16.50 pb ISBN 0 7146 4388 2.

The House of Lords: Its Parliamentary and Judicial Roles edited by Brice Dickson and Paul Carmichael. Oxford: Hart Publishing Ltd, 1999. Pp.258. £30 hb ISBN 1 84113 020 6.

Namibia's Post‐Apartheid Regional Institutions: The Founding Years by Joshua Bernard Forrest. Woodbridge, Suffolk: University of Rochester Press, 1999. Pp.xviii + 408. £40 hb ISBN 1 58046 028 3.

Bakom Riksdagens Fasad by Magnus Hagevi. Göteburg: Akademiförlaget, Corona, 1998. Pp.314 pb ISBN 91 24 16844 0.

Feminist Perspectives on Public Law edited by Susan Millns and Noel Whitty. London: Cavendish Publishing Limited, 1999. Pp.xviii + 306. £19.95 pb ISBN 1 85941 480 X.

Senates: Bicameralism in the Contemporary World edited by Samuel C. Patterson and Anthony Mughan. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1999. Pp.xii + 360. $52 hb ISBN 0 8142 0810 X; $19.95 pb 0 8142 5010 6.

Deliberative Democracy in Australia: The Changing Place of Parliament by John Uhr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xvi + 265. £45 hb ISBN 0 521 62458 4; £15.95 pb ISBN 0 521 62465 7.

Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees by David Alistair Yalof. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp.x + 296. £19.50 hb ISBN 0 226 94545 6.     

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Clinician's Guide to Child Custody Evaluations by Marc J. Ackerman. New York: Wiley, pp. 315. ISBN 0-471-05252-3 (hardback, £38.50).

Psychology and Policing in a Changing World by Peter B. Ainsworth. Chichester. Wiley. pp. 266. ISBN 0-471-94225-1 (hardback £24.95); ISBN 0-471-95607-4 (paperback £15.95).     

Migrations of manuscripts index 1978–91

Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1558–1603. R.F. Hunnisett. London. 1996. Public Record Office Publications, xlviii + 216 pp. (incl. Indexes). £20 hb. ISBN 1–873162–28–6.

Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution. Glenn Burgess. New Haven and London. 1996. Yale University Press, x + 229 pp. (incl. Index). £25. Hardback. ISBN 0–3–06532–9

Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law &; Society in Connecticut, 1639–1789. Cornelia Hughes Dayton. Chapel Hill. 1995. University of North Carolina Press, xv + 382 pp. (incl. Index). $49.95 hb; $18.95 pb. ISBN 0–8078–2244–2; 0–8078–4561–2.

Ratio legis Falcidiae. Die Falzidische Rechnung bei Zusammentreffen mehrerer Erbschaften in einer Hand. Dietmar Schanbacher. (Freiburger Rechtsgeschichtliche Abhandlungen, Neue Folge, 22). Berlin. 1995. Duncker &; Humblot. 253 pp. (incl. Index). DM 98 pb. ISBN 3–428–08482–9. ISSN 0720–6704.

Der Kampf urns Recht: Forschungsband aus Anlass des 100. Todestages von Rudolf von Jhering. G. Luf and W. Ogris (eds.). Berlin. 1995. Duncker &; Humblot. 148 pp. DM 98 hb. ISBN 3–428–08435–7.     

The Process is the Rule and the Punishment is the Process

Andrew Ashworth, The Criminal Process: An Evaluative Study , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994, 315 pp, hb £45.00, pb £12.95. Andrew Sanders and Richard Young, Criminal Justice , London: Butterworths, 1994, 496 pp, pb £18.95.     

Industrial safety: The political challenge∗

The Philosophical Origins of Modern Contract Doctrine. JAMES GORDLEY. Oxford. 1991. The Clarendon Press. 263 pp. £35 hb; £16.99 pb.

A History of the Anglo‐American Common Law of Contract. KEVIN M. TEEVEN. New York. 1990. Greenwood Press, xii + 382 pp.

Legal Fiction: Law in the Novels of Nineteenth Century Women Novelists. KATHLEEN LONCAR. London. 1995. Minerva Press. 266pp. (inc Index). £7.99 pb. ISBN 1 85863 668 X.

Adversaria: Literature and Law. E.J. HINZ, T. ANDERSON AND A. McGILLIVRAY (eds.) [Special Issue of Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol.27 no.4 ‐ December 1994] Winnipeg. 1994. University of Manitoba, ix + 230 pp. $20 pb. ISSN 0027–1276.

The Independence of the Judiciary. The View from the Lord Chancellor's Office. ROBERT STEVENS. Oxford. 1993. Clarendon Press, xii + 221 pp (incl. index). £27.50 hb. ISBN 0 19 825815 1

Marriage, Property and Law in Late Imperial Russia. WILLIAM G. WAGNER. Oxford. 1994. Clarendon Press. xiv+413pp (incl. Index) £45 hb. ISBN 0–19–820447–7.