Authors
Gilbert Geis
Publication date
1962
Source
Crime & Delinquency
Volume
8
Pages
422
Description
All elements of this approach dominate Fred Cook's diatribe against organized gambling activities and against those participating in them. It is rather difficult to take the author as seriously as he might wish when he presents his case in such melodramatic terms and insists upon ignoring or misstating material that might conflict with his impassioned stand. Nowhere does he make any real attempt to analyze-even if only for the purpose of rebuttal-why gambling flourishes in our indifferent midst.
It is rather frightening to watch this vitriolic social reformer run, in the name of the public weal, so roughshod over views held by persons who are as well-intentioned as he. For example, Cook castigates for their" tolerant attitude toward some of the foulest scum in America" those judges who have handed out mild sentences to known organized criminals, but he fails to mention any of the ethical or legal aspects of the problem …
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