War and Crime
- Author:
Hermann Mannheim.
C. A. Watts & Co., Ltd. Pp. 208. 10s. 6d. net.
This book deals with the analogies between the causes of war and the causes of crime, the effects of war upon crime and the possibility of Preventing and punishing war by methods similar to those used in the penal code applied to the individual.
Readers of this journal as intelligent citizens will find the whole book worth studying, especially the last section in which international Police duty and the way in which restraint of communities under a federal system might be accomplished are discussed, but its application to their every day work will be found in the second section. In this the trend of criminal statistics prior to 1914 is discussed as also the effect of the great war on adult and juvenile crime and the outlook for the present war. It is clear that while war may act as a substitute for aggressive crimes against the person, so that these are found to diminish, crimes against Property always tend to increase. Juvenile crime increased in the last war and seems likely to ‘ncrease in this war, but no single cause can he blamed for this. The common contention for example, that the absence of fathers is a ^ajor factor is not borne out by statistics since less than 30 per cent, of cases were found to be So affected.
In the present circumstances, wholesale evacuation of children away from their families will be found to have some effect, but perhaps still more the running wild of unevacuated children left in danger areas where no proper School facilities are available.
Altogether this is an interesting and well written book which can be strongly recommended to all those interested in major social developments.
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