when other problems were foremost, the adversary system obtained. It is a sort of game between the defendant and the prosecutor, played under a set of rules which the judge is there to umpire. (Italics added.) The judge's function, says Sir Hartley, ought instead to be to get at the truth." After four years the Hashfield case was not concluded as the book went to print. The author comments on the case as follows: "the indeterminate sentence (with release by Parole Boards) for serious sex offenders proves small deterrent when it is not backed up by an adequate system of treatment. The Hashfield case exemplifies the price a community may be called upon to pay long after a particularly bestial sex murder has taken place, when the citizens of a state have failed to recognize the special nature of crimes against women and children and have been content with a system which permits a chronic sex offender to be freed, time after time, untreated and uncured, until at last he lands in newspaper headlines over the entire country." (81)

Fortunately some states are working on a solution of the problem of so-called sex crime with notable effectiveness. The author gives a detailed account of "Treatment and Prevention" in Wisconsin, California, and Massachusetts, that of California being especially worthy of study.

No review can do justice to this book which should be read and pondered by all who are interested in the legal aspects of public welfare and the rational consideration of sex problems. T. M. Merritt, Ph.D.

WOMEN'S PRISON, Sex and Social Structure, by David A. Ward and Gene G. Kassebaum, Aldine Publishing Co., Chicago, 1965, 269 pages, $7.50.

Women's Prison, a large labor to prove something already well known has put into words once again the fact that wherever women are segregated

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into camps, schools, or even kindergartens they will seek one another out for an outlet to their emotional and affectional needs. One is hardly surprised to find that such is the case also in a

prison for women. Further, that women of sexual maturity will carry their emotional needs to the point of physical contact can not be too astounding.

Anyone who has done a minimum of reading on the women of this or any other era will find little in the book that has not been covered. In a

comparison of this book with those of our old Lesbian mystique mentor, Ann Aldridge, and an April issue of Bazaar, which happened to be about the place, I was rather inclined to believe that Women's Prison mirrors the situation of the outside world fairly well.

Homosexual society has become fashionable from the jet set to the afternoon frolics of the business men's wives, and our authors at least recognized that the causes for Frontera's homosexual orientation lie deeper in the social structure than the prisoners' expression of it can explain.

However, that the concern of 50% of the women at Frontera (that 50% not participating in the homosexual milieu) were not covered in this study is, of course, also in keeping with such investigations which tend to interest the public more in "the problem" than in the "successes."

Viewed from the personal point of view, the orientation at Frontera seems quite normal, and as viable as the cliques and backbitings and self-oriented miseries that might have been discovered had that other 50% also been intimately queried and examined. In addition, it would have been interesting to know whether the "hot" and "cold" running "snitches" were from the homosexually oriented community or from the other undefined 50% of apparently less interesting womanhood, who, we are to believe, are entirely drawn into the culture of intimate