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This is the first fairly comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia for the use of those concerned with this field that this reader has seen. It may not perhaps strike the specialist on this subject as a very profound piece of work (specialists are notoriously hard to please) but police officers, officials, social workers as well as psychiatrists and others will certainly find this book a handy, accessible mine of information. It fills an important gap on our shelves. It will remain an important work of reference for some time to come.
The senior author is a well-known psychiatrist and editor of the Journal of Criminal Psycho-pathology. Dr. Kutash is chief clinical psychologist, Newark Mental Hygiene Clinic of the V. A. Both have had extensive experience in this special field. As editors, they have enlisted the combined efforts of some sixty-one specialists in various disciplines who write the articles. Such names as Augusta F. Bronner, Clickley, A. N. Foxe, Eleanor and Sheldon Glueck, L. E. Hinsie, J. Edgar Hoover, Lewis E. Lawes, Robert Lindner, O. H. Mowrer, Overholser, Pescor, R. V. Seliger, Lowell S. Selling, Fritz Wittels, Zilboorg and many others indicate both the authority and scope of the contributors. The list is a guarantee of the reliability and comprehension of the individual articles making up the volume.
As always in a book of this type, it is difficult to review in view of the varying length of the articles and the encyclopedic variety of the subjects involved. Reading the articles of primary interest to the reviewer, they strike one as competently and comprehensively covered—illustrating, as can be expected—the particular interest and bias of the contributor. However, they are all quite up-to-date and can be fully relied upon to give the most recent advances in this field. The bibliographies appended to each article are adequate enough to give the key references to enable one to pursue the problem further. Many divergent points of view are noted but for th