Social Treatment in Probation and Delinquency: By Pauline V. Young, Ph.D. Foreword by Roscoe Pound. New Second Edition. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York: 1952. 536 pp.

The second edition of a textbook, this volume describes all aspects of delinquency from apprehension, detention, investigation, adjudication, placement, and probation to individual and group therapy. All community resources, institutional and psychiatric, recreational, social organizational, etc., are discussed in relation to the delinquent and his parents. No one approach is stressed except 'social therapy' which is differentiated from psychotherapy as a 're-education or re-definition of the social situation' of the offender. The social therapeutic frame of reference is the cultural world in which the delinquent lives and from which he 'derives his basic motivations'.

Collation of clinical material from many well-known agencies forms the matrix of the book. Recognized authorities are liberally quoted throughout. In the sections devoted to individual therapy, Roger's counseling techniques are given sympathetic attention.

Since the emphasis is chiefly sociolegal, the analyst may not find much to interest him. The justification for this second edition is the consolidation and refinement of the probation field in recent years. Roscoe Pound's statement in the Foreword regarding the growth and integration of the probation field since the first edition (1937) is an apt commentary on this process of consolidation. He writes: '[the growth of coöperation] is the decay of the persistent