Walter A. Lunden

Captivity psychoses among prisoners of war.

This article is based upon the experiences of the author as a prison officer with the United States Army in England, France and Germany from 1943 to 1946. He was Assistant Professor of Sociology in the University of Pittsburg from 1931 to 1942. He was with the British 21st Army in 1944 and was Chief of the Prison Branch Office of Military Government for Bavaria in 1945-1946. Since 1947 he is Professor of Sociology in the Iowa State College.-EDITO.

HENTIG, HANS VON. Zur Psychologie der Einzeldelikte, I: Diebstahl, Einbruch, Raub. Pp. viii, 195. Tübingen, Ger many : J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1954. Paper DM 12.80; cloth DM 15.80:

as expressed in the title, nevertheless remains throughout clearly discernible. As in their previous book Crime, Suicide, and Social Well-being (1948), it is again the authors’ principal object to examine, by the application of . statistical and sociological techniques, the relationship between crime and various other indices of social disorganization. They make it clear that the exclusion of psychological and psychiatric factors involves no adverse criticism of individualistic interpretations of crime