The reviewer feels that it is a very healthy spirit which gives birth to the recent works on criminology. Psychiatry and the hospitals for the mentally ill have through generations of struggle finally emancipated themselves from medievalism sufficiently so that they are pretty substantially grounded and pretty well on their feet doing an excellent work in the ranks of scientific progress. The prisons, as was to be expected, have been much slower to avail themselves cf scientific methods, and have remained essentially penal institutions, while the courts have remained instruments for meting out punishment. All this is slowly changing and a book like the present one of Professor Sutherland's is an