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11 Deviant Behav. 299 (1990)
Creative Self-Hypnosis: New Wide-Awake, Nontrance Techniques to Empower Your Life, Work, and Relationships

handle is hein.journals/devbh11 and id is 290 raw text is: DEVIANT BEHAVIOR: BOOK REVIEWS address how the class system may, despite the presence of reintegrative shaming, perpetuate criminality. While reintegrative shaming may inspire some individuals to reform, substantial reintegration requires some substan- tive economic measures. Otherwise, many corporate criminals who already find it relatively easy to evade the law, may simply experience less costly punishment when they are caught. Those most likely to suffer from reintegrative shaming, on the other hand, are blue collar and street criminals, who are more easily detected and then simply thrust back into the same crime-provoking situations. Ultimately, it seems that Braithwaite desires to change methods of social control so that all individuals are treated as family. This notion may have merit, but before such change can be effective all individuals should be treated as family by everyone. Among other things, this means that such substantive support as increased opportunity and economic aid is needed in addition to symbolic gestures. In spite of the weaknesses described, this book provides a thought-provoking theory regarding an alternative to retributive, rehabilitative, and radical non-interventionist methods of social control. Braithwaite discusses a num- ber of important issues relevant to deterrence, and his book warrants careful consideration by criminal justice scholars. Creative Self-Hypnosis: New Wide-Awake, Nontrance Techniques to Em- power Your Life, Work, and Relationships. by Roger A. Straus, New York: Prentice Hall. 1989, 270 pages, 59.95, paper. Reviewed by Anthony J. Riech, California State University, San Bernardino. Roger Straus, a clinical sociologist and market research consultant, developed this volume primarily for use as a self-help book. Straus also suggests the material can be used by professional advisors, groups and as a college level text. Creative Self-Hypnosis is a self-help book, demonstrating how to recognize personal problems, and offers techniques for dealing with these problems. This book is not based on solutions; rather the content is intended to assist lay persons to deal with their problems and serves as an aid for understand- ing the nature of the problem. Straus states that we are already hypnotized by postnatal suggestions, suggestions which are given by family, friends, and associates and that we subconsciously hear and follow their suggestions. But Straus argues we should listen to our own voice and thus take control of our lives. He asks that we think of our mind as a verb. We should mind the world, using the mind as a function of our bodies, and to become conscious of the world (p. 43). The author attempts to show how it is possible to gain self-control through a series of forty-one principles, twenty-five key tactics, and seven techniques, 299

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