Abstract
THE authors of this volume, which, in so far. as it is affected by practical considerations, is based more particularly on conditions in America, examine minutely the precedent conditions of a science of the criminal from every point of view-behaviour, environment, treatment and the administration of the law. They are severely critical of existing studies in criminology, pointing out in which respects they fall short of compliance with the canons of an empirical science. There neither is, they maintain, nor can be a science of criminology until the studies upon which such a science is dependent, namely, psychology and sociology, are themselves placed upon a scientific basis, a point not yet attained. They bring their thesis to a close with a proposal for an institute and system of study of the criminal from every point of view. As a critical study the book is illuminating and suggestive, as well as constructively helpful.
Crime, Law and Social Science.
Prof.
Jerome
Michael
Prof.
Mortimer J.
Adler
By. (International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.) Pp. xxix + 440. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1933.) 15s. net.
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Crime, Law and Social Science. Nature 132, 877 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132877c0
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