It may be useful, as a guide to students and others who occasionally require such information as this volume affords, to quote here the titles of the several chapters. I. Chronological List of Laws, Amendments, Executive Vetoes, II. Analysis, by States, of Sterilization Laws Enacted Prior to III. Texts and Legislative Records of the Eugenical Sterilization Laws. IV. Statistical and Descriptive Summary of Eugenical Sterilization in the Several States. V. Analysis of the Eugenical Sterilization Laws by Subject. VII. Detailed Review of Litigation Growing Out of the Several 1, Washington; 2, New Jersey; 3, Iowa; 4, Michigan; 5, New York; 6, Nevada; 7, Indiana; 8, Oregon. VIII. Case and Family Histories of Individual Subjects of Litigation Growing Out of the Several Eugenical Sterilization Laws. IX. Legal Opinion. X. The Right of the State to Limit Human Reproduction in the Interest of Race Betterment. XI. Eugenical Diagnosis. XII. The Anatomical and Surgical Aspects of Eugenical Steriliza tion. XIII. The Physiological and Mental Effects of Sexual Sterilization. XIV. The Legal, Biological and Practical Requirements for an Effective Eugenical Sterilization Law. XV. Model Eugenical Sterilization Law. XVI. Explanatory Comments on the Model Sterilization Law. XVII. Set of Forms Suggested for the Use of the State Eugenicist, the Courts, Private Citizens, and Custodial Institutions in Administering the Model Eugenical Sterilization Law. Northwestern University. ROBERT H. GAULT. THE DEFECTIVE DELINQUENT AND INSANE. By Henry A. Cotton, M. D. With a foreword by Adolf Meyer, M. D. Princeton University Press, 1921. Pp. 201. In his series of lectures delivered at Princeton University, January, 1921, and a few months later put in book form under the above title, Dr. Cotton severely criticizes the doctrine of heredity as applied in the field of mental disorders as being "detrimental and destructive." Not only is it scientifically unstable, but it is "obsolete." The only relationship between heredity and mental disorders of the "functional" type is that the former refers to "the individual's constitutional resistance to various toxins, rather than to merely mental instability." Although criticizing the Freudians on the ground that their work is only mitigative, and hence of secondary value, he recognizes, of course, that mental factors are contributory in the mechanism of the psychoses, but only in so far as they lower the patient's health, and hence his immunity to infection. He points out the various foci of infection in the organism, distinguishing clearly between the primary— teeth and tonsils and the secondary. All "functional" mental disorders are traceable to toxic poisoning which results from bacteria located in the foci. Such is his thesis. In support of his contentions he states that over 1,000 patients of the "functional" group have been successfully treated in the manner which he champions during the three years that this method was employed in the New Jersey State Hospital. He cites convincing charts and tables to show his phenomenal success. Though very positive in some of his statements, he marshals rather convincing evidence in support of them. He discusses mental disorders from the historical, economic, sociological, physiological, and psychological points of view in both an interesting and instructive manner. Northwestern University. GEORGE W. CRANE. GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME XIV, 1923-1924 AUTHORS' INDEX Anderson, Nels.-The Tramp.... Anderson, Victor V.-The Psychiatric Clinic in the Treatment of No. Page 2-289 3-414 Barrow, A. Mabel-Public Defender: A Bibliography....... 4 554 Question 1-62 ..... Corcoran, Mary Margaret-State Police in the United States: A 4-542 Crossley, Frederic B.-Report of the Chairman of the Institute's 1- 75 Doll, Edgar A.-Classification of Prisoners for Purposes of Training Eliot, Thomas W.-The Juvenile Court and the Educational System. 1- 25 Ferri, Enrico-On the Reform of the Italian Penal Code.. 1- 91 4-522 4-603 Glueck, S. S.-Ethics, Psychology and the Criminal Responsibility of 2-208 State Legislation Providing for the Mental Examina- 4-571 Hart, Hornell-Predicting Parole Success.. 3-405 Larson, J. A., and Walker, A.-Paranoia and Paranoid Personalities: A Practical Police Problem..... 1-350 Lester, Hugh-Report on Classification of Crimes.... 4-591 Martin, Edward M.-An Aptitude Test for Policemen... 3-376 Marsh, Pliny W.-Detroit Succeeds under a New Organization............. 1— 11 to the Medical View, and the Most Commonly Asserted 1-46 Riddell, William Renwick-The Slave in Upper Canada.. Walker, A., and Larson, J. A.-Paranoia and Paranoid Personal- ities: A Practical Police Problem.... 1-350 No. Page Warner, Sam B.-Factors Determining Parole from the Massachu- SUBJECT INDEX Crime and Insanity: The Legal As Opposed to the Medical View, 1- 79 1-46 State Legislature Providing for the Mental Examination of Per- 4-571 -- Crimes, Report on Classification of. Hugh Lester. (Art.) ....... 4-591 1-79 4-587 Law, Insanity and the. (Rev.).. 1-156 -- - Justice in Relation to Repeaters, Administration of. (Ed.)..... 2—159 3-337 Glueck. (Art.) 2-208 Criminals, On Habitual. (Note.)... 1-138 Delinquent and the Insane-The Defective. (Rev.)... Detroit Succeeds under a New Organization. Pliny W. Marsh. (Art.) .... 1— 11 Documents in Dispute, Recognized "Authorities" in Analyzing. Insane, The Defective Delinquent and the. (Rev.)..... 4-623 (Art.)....... Ethics, Psychology and the Criminal Responsibility of the. 2-208 Insanity and the Hypothetical Question, Medico-Legal. L. Vernon The Legal As Opposed to the Medical View, and the Most |