Book Reviews : The following review is reprinted by kind permission of The Harvard Law Review Association. LAW AND PSYCHIATRY: COLD WAR OR ENTENTE CORDIALE? By Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press, 1962. Pp. 181. Price, $4.95
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154 Book ReviewsThe following review is reprinted by kind permission of The Harvard Law Review Association. LAW AND PSYCHIATRY: COLD WAR OR ENTENTE CORDIALE? By Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press, 1962. Pp. 181. Price, $4.95 SAGE Publications, Inc.1965DOI: 10.1177/002076406501100215 William O. Douglas United States Supreme Court Lawrence Zelic Freedman M.D. Foundations' Fund Research Professor in Psychiatry, University of Chicago Medical School A Judge's View This book contains the 1962 Isaac Ray Lectures and maintains the high standards set by the predecessors chosen both from law and from psychiatry. But when the book is taken line by line and page by page its total effect is one of sadness. None is more expert in the field of criminal responsibility than Sheldon Glueck. He and David Bazelon and John Biggs make up a modern triumvirate of distinction. Yet when their wisdom is collated and summed up, the condition of the modern western state in its attitude toward crime is a dreary account. There are some institutions of enlightenment where criminals are treated as patients, but they are few. All the years of recorded history show little advance in penology.