Abstract
The way any country defines and treats its offenders may well serve as its calling card. Maria toos, professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa, in her recently published book, Communist Ideology, Law and Crime, has much to say about offenders and how they are defined and treated in two major Communist-ruled countries-the USSR and Poland. The book seems to address two kinds of readers: criminologists innocent of any knowledge about Communist countries, and those specializing in Soviet/East European studies who lack expertise in criminal law and criminology (at xiii). The book, in spite of some errors of fact and/or judgment,1 contains much useful information for these two categories of
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