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Book Review: Death on the Road: A Study in Social Violence

Book Review: Death on the Road: A Study in Social Violence AUST. & N.Z. JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (June, 1972): 5, 2 pressing problems presenting to the criminologist that there is much to be said for more research of smaller dimensions involving a lesser usage of the total re­ search resources. It may well be that Book Reviews there are research workers whose efforts are "directed to the pursuit of knowledge" (p.383), but one keeps asking oneself "so what" when reading that magistrates differ the one from the other. Thus, to try and answer the comment, "so what", one turns Sentencing as a Human Process: John to "An Afterword" for some practical Hogarth; University of Toronto Press; suggestions for change stemming from the MI750-9. 1971; 432pp; $C 15.00. ISBN OM8020 research findings. At this point the reader There can be no doubt in any thinking is rather disappointed with the end result mind that the magistrate or judge charged of the research endeavour. He is informed with the responsibility of sentencing a that the law might be "simplified"; that convicted person has an extremely difficult attention should be paid to the selection task; the more so with sentencing becom­ of magistrates and judges; that the train­ ing increasingly more "tailor-made" than http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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AUST. & N.Z. JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (June, 1972): 5, 2 pressing problems presenting to the criminologist that there is much to be said for more research of smaller dimensions involving a lesser usage of the total re­ search resources. It may well be that Book Reviews there are research workers whose efforts are "directed to the pursuit of knowledge" (p.383), but one keeps asking oneself "so what" when reading that magistrates differ the one from the other. Thus, to try and answer the comment, "so what", one turns Sentencing as a Human Process: John to "An Afterword" for some practical Hogarth; University of Toronto Press; suggestions for change stemming from the MI750-9. 1971; 432pp; $C 15.00. ISBN OM8020 research findings. At this point the reader There can be no doubt in any thinking is rather disappointed with the end result mind that the magistrate or judge charged of the research endeavour. He is informed with the responsibility of sentencing a that the law might be "simplified"; that convicted person has an extremely difficult attention should be paid to the selection task; the more so with sentencing becom­ of magistrates and judges; that the train­ ing increasingly more "tailor-made" than

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Jun 1, 1972

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