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Book Review: Key Issues in Criminology

Book Review: Key Issues in Criminology 62 AUST. & N.Z. JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (March, 1971): 4, 1 four times, before making an actual arrest, the idea that conviction is simply a mat­ ter of bad luck cannot wholly be accepted. The third area dealt with is "subcul­ tural and gang delinquency", and the Book Reviews analysis presented gives an excellent pic­ ture of the confusion resulting over the years from the many different interpreta­ tions of the anomie theory. The authors give penetrating considerations to the work of Cohen, Cloward and Ohlin and KEY ISSUES IN CRIMINOLOGY, Roger Matza, and some long overdue critical at­ Hood and Richard Sparks, World Univer­ tention to Yablonsky's theories. sity Library, 1970, 254 pp, $2.30 (paper). The next area considered is the vexed THIS excellent book is written by two issue of classifications and typologies of people who are well known as Assistant crimes and criminals. The vital point they Directors of Research at the Cambridge make here is that much of the attention Institute of Criminology and is a product which has in the past been directed to the of the clear, detached approach which the classification of criminals into distinct Cambridge School has traditionally foster­ typologies (such http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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0004-8658
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1837-9273
DOI
10.1177/000486587100400107
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Abstract

62 AUST. & N.Z. JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (March, 1971): 4, 1 four times, before making an actual arrest, the idea that conviction is simply a mat­ ter of bad luck cannot wholly be accepted. The third area dealt with is "subcul­ tural and gang delinquency", and the Book Reviews analysis presented gives an excellent pic­ ture of the confusion resulting over the years from the many different interpreta­ tions of the anomie theory. The authors give penetrating considerations to the work of Cohen, Cloward and Ohlin and KEY ISSUES IN CRIMINOLOGY, Roger Matza, and some long overdue critical at­ Hood and Richard Sparks, World Univer­ tention to Yablonsky's theories. sity Library, 1970, 254 pp, $2.30 (paper). The next area considered is the vexed THIS excellent book is written by two issue of classifications and typologies of people who are well known as Assistant crimes and criminals. The vital point they Directors of Research at the Cambridge make here is that much of the attention Institute of Criminology and is a product which has in the past been directed to the of the clear, detached approach which the classification of criminals into distinct Cambridge School has traditionally foster­ typologies (such

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of CriminologySAGE

Published: Mar 1, 1971

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