Book Reviews: The Black Market: A Study of White Collar Crime. By MARSHALL B. CLINARD. (New York: Rinehart and Co., Inc. 1952. Pp. xvii, 392. $5.00.)

• Author: Marver Bernstein
• Published date: 01 December 1952
• Date: 01 December 1952
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295200500462
• Subject Matter: Articles

729

in

any

successful

public

relations

program

-

fact..finding,

planning,

com-

municating,

use

of

tools,

selection

of

the

expert.

There

is

extended

treat-

ment

of

the

nature

and

role

of

the

public

relations

specialist,

and

full

attention

to

the

various

interrelationships

with

which

he

will

be

concerned

-

intra-organization,

community,

trade,

general

public,

and

press.

Ten

large

areas

of

national

life

are

selected

for

fuller

case

treatment

of

the

public

relations

problem

-

industry,

small

business,

trade

associations,

banks

and

utilities,

labor

unions,

welfare

institutions,

government,

the

schools,

higher

education,

and

the

armed

forces.

The

section

on

govern-

ment

includes

a

good

discussion of

the

problem

of

Congressional

hostility

to

the

public

relations

activities

of

the

administrative

agencies.

Through

patient

presentation

of

facts

and

skillful

interpretation

the

authors

develop

the

central

idea

that

an

effective

public

relations

program,

far

from

being

mere

promotion

or

press

agentry,

is

the

process

whereby

an

organization

makes

itself

understood

by

those

with

whom

it

has

dealings.

Since

the

importance

of

the

court

of

public

opinion

is

universally

recog-

nized,

public

relations

may

be

looked

upon

as

an

increasingly

necessary

adjunct

to

a

full

and

successful

democracy.

The

style

is

engaging

and

highly

respectable.

The

footnotes

suggest

many

important

recent

articles

in

the

field.

Since

the

book

is

pointed

at

a

college

market,

however,

failure

to

include

a

more

formal

bibliography

may

be

cited

as

a

shortcoming.

The

University

of

Missouri.

ROBERT

F.

KARSCH.

The

Black

Market:

A

Study

of

White

Collar

Crime.

By

MARSHALL

B.

CLINARD.

(New

York:

Rinehart

and

Co.,

Inc.

1952.

Pp.

xvii,

392.

$5.00.)

In

this

study

of

violations

of

price,

rationing,

and

rent

regulations

administered

by

the

Office

of

Price

Administration

during

World

War

II,

the

author

discusses

the

enforcement

program

of

the

OPA

and

the

nature

and

extent

of

the

violations

of

OPA

regulations.

He

then

relates

his

analysis

of

such

violations,

called

collectively

here

the

black

market,

to

current

criminological

theories

of

the

sources

of

crime,

especially

to

the

theory

of

differential

association

as

conceived

by

Edwin

Sutherland

in

his

Vv’lhite

Coll,ar

Crime.

This

book

is

of

interest

to

political

scientists

concerned

about

public

administration

in

general,

and

the

relations

of

government

and

economic

life

in

particular.

While

there

are

many

texts

and

monographs

on

government

regulation

of

business,

almost

none

of

them

give

any

but

the

most

cursory

attention

to

enforcement.

The

book

can

be

divided

conveniently

into

four

parts.

The

first,

consisting

of

four

chapters,

describes

the

extent

of

the

violations

of

OPA