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Book Review: The Police, Crime, and Society

Book Review: The Police, Crime, and Society AUST. & N.Z. JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (June, 1973): 6, 2 and author, has shown a previous interest extremely readable contribution to the in aggression, comes to this conclusion overall problems. If for no other reason, also as a vital point in this welcome mono­ it brings to our attention the danger of graph. the compulsively rigid and authoritarian paranoid as the dangerous man in any The publication is of particular interest community, particularly where he manages since it forms part of a research project to . assume a position of power, The designed to investigate, and to give some relevance of this to all cultures and tentative explanation, of human de­ political systems is too obvious to be structiveness. Other publications in this comfortable. series include a study of some S.S. killers and a work on the destiny of Europe's I am in sympathy with the author's gypsies. aims and many of his arguments. How­ ever, his over-generalisations tend to Storr correctly questions the validity of antagonise the professional reader, and conclusions which arise in the course of they confuse the lay person. The topic a psychotherapist's experience with indi­ is too important to be treated so casually. vidual http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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SAGE
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Copyright © by SAGE Publications
ISSN
0004-8658
eISSN
1837-9273
DOI
10.1177/000486587300600212
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Abstract

AUST. & N.Z. JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (June, 1973): 6, 2 and author, has shown a previous interest extremely readable contribution to the in aggression, comes to this conclusion overall problems. If for no other reason, also as a vital point in this welcome mono­ it brings to our attention the danger of graph. the compulsively rigid and authoritarian paranoid as the dangerous man in any The publication is of particular interest community, particularly where he manages since it forms part of a research project to . assume a position of power, The designed to investigate, and to give some relevance of this to all cultures and tentative explanation, of human de­ political systems is too obvious to be structiveness. Other publications in this comfortable. series include a study of some S.S. killers and a work on the destiny of Europe's I am in sympathy with the author's gypsies. aims and many of his arguments. How­ ever, his over-generalisations tend to Storr correctly questions the validity of antagonise the professional reader, and conclusions which arise in the course of they confuse the lay person. The topic a psychotherapist's experience with indi­ is too important to be treated so casually. vidual

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of CriminologySAGE

Published: Jun 1, 1973

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