BOOK REVIEWS

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Book reviewed in this article:CRIME AND SOCIETY The New Criminology: for a social theory of deviance. By Ian Taylor, Paul Walton and Jock Young, Routledge and Kegan Paul.Deviance and Society. By Laurie Taylor, Michael Joseph.Law Enforcement and the Youthful Offender. By Edward Eldefons, John Wiley.Israeli Studies in Criminology, 1972/3 Ed. S. Shoham.Violence in Human Society. By John Gunn, David and Charles, Newton Abbot.Girl Offenders Aged 17 to 20 years. By Jean Davies and Nancy Goodman.Misfits. By Paul and Patricia de Berker.Addicts: Drugs and Alcohol re‐examined. By James Willis.A Practical Guide to the Drug Scene. By Kenneth Leech.PRISONS Punishment, Prison and the Public. By R. Cross, Stevens.People in Prison. By Hugh Klare.Prisons Under Sentence. By H. W. Chatfield.Making It In Prison. By Esther Heffernan, John Wiley.Psychological Survival: Experience of Long‐term Imprisonment. By Stanley Cohen and Laurie Taylor.Dartmoor to Cambridge: the Autobiography of a Prison Graduate. By Douglas Curtis.LAW Wrongful Imprisonment: Mistaken Convictions and their Consequences. By Ruth Brandon and Christie Davies, George Allen & Unwin.Knowledge and Opinion About Law. By Adam Podgorecki, Wolfgang Kaupen, J. Van Houtte, P. Vinke, Berl Kutchinsky.CHILDREN Social Adjustment and Personality Development in Children. By Merrill.Children Still in Trouble?Juvenile Justice ‐ the demands of treatment. By John C. Spencer.Bert The Hell Driver. By P. Stevenson.SOCIAL WORK Advise, Assist and Befriend: a history of the Probation and After‐care Service. By F. V. Jarvis.RESEARCH INTO DETERRENCE Deterrence: the Legal Threat in Crime Control. By F. E. Zimring and G. J. Hawkins.