Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment
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31 A new privacy paradigm is discussed in the third and last section of the
book. The issue of balancing private and public interests is weighed in light of such
thorny issues as the health care trend toward respect for the quality, rather than the
quantity, of life. The final chapter-Privacy and Property?-is tough reading for it
demands that one suspend bias. But it works. Laurie may not convince but he reveals
a new forum for debate. As genetic knowledge increases, legal protection of privacy
should be strengthened and, to this end, Laurie offers an alternative way to view pri-
vacy in regard to personal information such as genetic makeup. Property rights in the
self are seen as a complement to, not a replacement of, other means of protection.
32 Laurie confesses to a degree of obsession about his personal privacy
(p.ix) and his enthusiasm in exploring privacy issues is apparent throughout the
book. Lawyers, public policy makers, researchers, and health care professionals
will benefit from the clarity of Laurie's writing on the complex topic of privacy
rights, particularly in the context of personal genetic information. The book will
be a useful addition to law and medical libraries. It succeeds in clearing the path
and pointing the way for further debate to resolve the issues surrounding the use
of genetic material and information.
Levinson, David, ed. Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment. Thousand Oaks,
Calif.: Sage, 2002. 4v. 1876p. $600.
Reviewed by Diana C. Jaque
33 Having recently written a review of Joshua Dressler's Encyclopedia of Crime
and Justice,4 I was eager to examine David Levinson's Encyclopedia of Crime
and Punishment and compare the two works. Dressler is a more familiar name
within the legal community than Levinson, a cultural anthropologist who was vice
president of the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University. Levinson
cofounded Berkshire Reference Works in 1995. The Encyclopedia of Crime and
Punishment was developed by Berkshire Reference Works and published by Sage.
Levinson has edited several encyclopedia sets on a wide range of topics,5 but
unlike Dressler, he has never written or edited a work on criminal justice or crim-
inal law. However, Levinson's eight-member editorial board includes four individ-
uals with faculty appointments in academic criminal justice programs and several
others on the faculty of sociology and anthropology departments.
34 Levinson's Encyclopedia broadly examines the topics of crime and pun-
ishment. As such, the work is a starting point for researching aspects of crime in
the United States. Levinson includes 439 entries, each between three and six
14. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIME AND JUSTICE (Joshua Dressier ed., 2d ed. 2002), reviewed in Diana C. Jaque
& Lee Neugebauer, Legal Reference Books Review, 94 LAW LIER. J. 315, 321-23, 2002 LAw LIBR. J.
21, 9[ 21-26 (reviewed by Diana C. Jaque).
15. E.g., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (David Levinson & Melvin Ember eds., 1996);
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY (David Levinson ed., 1995); ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD
SPORT (David Levinson & Karen Christensen eds., 1996).
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