ABSTRACT
In the critical period after the war, the problem of crime can be expected to absorb many of the energies devoted to the task of social reconstruction. The rise in criminal activities which, in one form or another, is almost inevitable after such an earthquake will mean much hard work for courts and administrators of criminal justice. That the penal system in practically every country will have to be modernized nobody is likely to deny. It is, however, the main purpose of the present book to show that much more is required in the name of social reconstruction than only a reform of penal systems.
