DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS
PLEIN DROIT is a periodical review published by GISTI (Groupe d'information et de soutien des travailleurs immigrés), a French organisation of social workers and jurists providing advice and support to immigrants and refugees. Plein Droit comes out four times a yearand among other things includes a regular rubric "jurisprudence" resuming the most important decisions in the field of foreigners legislation. The review is a valuable source of information for all those interested in the issues justice - police - immigration with a focus on France. No.21 (July-September) contains a rubric "Police" with various articles dealing with items such as "police and society", "the foreigners register: an instrument of repression", and "the limits to police investigation", a rubric "Statistics" with figures on crime and foreigners followed by a critical assessment of their interpretation by the government, and a rubric "Justice -Prison". 60 p., in French. The price of one issue is 50 French francs.
Write to: Plein Droit - GISTI, 30, rue des Petites Ecuries, F-75010 Paris."Chronicles/Chroniques" is published every 2 years by the Faculty of Law of Democritus University, Thrace (Greece). In a preface, the editor in chief, Prof. Yannis Panoussis, writes: "Greek language, despite its beauty, constitutes a great handicap for those writers or researchers who have the ambition to participate in the quasi-universal scientific dialogue. 'Chronicles' have decided to surpass this difficulty by the presentation - every two years - of one volume written in foreign language (either by Greek criminologists or by colleagues from European universities)." Among the contents of volume 5/December 1992: The imminent corrective reform in Greece: Beyond punishment?, by Ch. Dimopoulos; Aspects constitutionnels du travail des prisonniers en Gréce (in French), by S.Koutsoubinas; Prisoners' struggle, governmental manoeuvres and social inertia in the 90's: The neutralisation of abolitionist tendencies and the intervention of criminologists; Les évolutions du sursis en France (in French), by P. Couvrat; Rethinking critical criminology, by R. van Swaaningen and I. Taylor. 150 p.
Write to: Vassilis Karydis, lecturer, 56, Sina Str., 10672 Athens, Greece.Police Co-operation in Europe - An Investigation , by John Benyon, Lynne Turnbull, Andrew Willis and rachel Woodward, published by the Centre for the Study of Public Order, University of Leicester, August 1993 (ISBN: 1-874493-30-8).
The report is an indispensable guide to policing of the EC, a comprehensive investigation (120'000 words) of the development and organisation of structures and arrangements for the co-ordination of police work throughout Europe.
The report discusses policing within the context of the development of the EC and the potential increases in growth of crime in Europe as a consequence of the removal of internal border controls. The consequences of the strengthening of the external borders of the EC for refugees and potential immigrants and new arrangements for internal security are also examined.
In view of the rapid development in information technology, including storage and exchange of information through data-bases (e.g. Schengen information System), a critical assessment is made of how the structures for co-operation work in practice and their potential for use and abuse.
The report is available at a price of £45 + £2.50 postage and packaging at: Dr. Rachel Woodward or Ms. Lynne Turnbull, Police, Crime & Justice in Europe, CSPO, 6 Salisbury Rd., Leicester LE1 7QR, UK, Tel: +44/533 523942, Fax: +44/533 523944