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Book Review: Syndicate Abroad

Book Review: Syndicate Abroad AUST. & N.Z. JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (Sept., 1970): 3, 3 the Craig and Glick report of a prospective was introduced in the tourist resorts of validation study of the Glueck Social Pre­ the Bahamas in the 1960s, and it depends diction Table. This is a timely addition partly on Mr. Messick's own journalistic which more than compensates for the skills and partly on the elaborate report omission of the earlier Glueck papers. The of the Bahamian Commission of Inquiry overall trend in this section, however, is on the casinos appointed in 1967. The away from delinquency prediction and to­ background to the story is simple. Since wards more sophisticated attempts at pre­ the 1920s the Bahamian economy has been dicting recidivism or failure on parole. dependent on tourism, and from 1950 on­ Many new statistical techniques such as wards this means mass tourism by plane predictive attribute analysis are clearly and ship, almost 90% from the United presented and these have the effect of States. Lotteries and gambling houses are making the original techniques of Ohlin illegal under the Penal Code, but an amend­ and others seem primitive in the extreme. ment had permitted the Governor-in­ The methodology of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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Publisher
SAGE
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Copyright © by SAGE Publications
ISSN
0004-8658
eISSN
1837-9273
DOI
10.1177/000486587000300309
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Abstract

AUST. & N.Z. JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (Sept., 1970): 3, 3 the Craig and Glick report of a prospective was introduced in the tourist resorts of validation study of the Glueck Social Pre­ the Bahamas in the 1960s, and it depends diction Table. This is a timely addition partly on Mr. Messick's own journalistic which more than compensates for the skills and partly on the elaborate report omission of the earlier Glueck papers. The of the Bahamian Commission of Inquiry overall trend in this section, however, is on the casinos appointed in 1967. The away from delinquency prediction and to­ background to the story is simple. Since wards more sophisticated attempts at pre­ the 1920s the Bahamian economy has been dicting recidivism or failure on parole. dependent on tourism, and from 1950 on­ Many new statistical techniques such as wards this means mass tourism by plane predictive attribute analysis are clearly and ship, almost 90% from the United presented and these have the effect of States. Lotteries and gambling houses are making the original techniques of Ohlin illegal under the Penal Code, but an amend­ and others seem primitive in the extreme. ment had permitted the Governor-in­ The methodology of

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of CriminologySAGE

Published: Sep 1, 1970

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