The eternal recurrence of crime and control: essays in honour of Paul Rock

This book is a Festschrift in honour of Paul Rock, former Professor of SocialPolicy at the London School of Economics. The edited volume examines and builds on the central themes associated with Professor Rock's work - social and criminological theory, policy development and policy-making, and victims and victimology. INDICE: Introduction: Paul RockDavid Downes and Frances Heidensohn: ; Poem on the occasion of Paul Rock's retirementKen Plummer: ; 1: Nicola Rafter: Cesare Lombroso and the reaction to his work in the United States; 2: Nigel Fielding: Making, untangling and futuring symbolic interactionism; 3: Simon Holdaway: Paul Rock's Sociology: A critique of themes in contemporary criminology;4: David Faulkner: Influences on Criminal Justice Policy 1959-2009; 5: Lucia Zedner: Reflections on Criminal Justice as a Social Institution; 6: Elaine Player: Prisons Policy: The Redevelopment of Holloway Prison; 7: Stephanie Hayman: Transforming the reformers: punitiveness in Canadian federally sentenced women's corrections; 8: Robert Reiner: Theories of Policing: A Social Democratic Critique; 9: P.A.J. Waddington: A Virtuous Exception? The Macpherson Inquiry and Report into the Murder of Stephen Lawrence and its Investigation; 10: Jill Peay: Suicide and Homicide in Psychiatric Hospitals: Caring for Victims?; 11: Rachel Condry: Appreciating the Broad Reach of Serious Crime and the Interpretive Power of Claims to Secondary Victimization; 12: Megan Comfort: <'I Looked at This as a Beautiful Experience>': Mass Incarceration and the Secondary Prisonization of Intimate Relationships; 13: Lawrence Sherman and Heather Strang: Paul Rock and the Criminology of Law-Making: Contingency, Emotions and a Defiance Theory of Victims' Rights

• ISBN: 978-0-19-958023-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 336
• Fecha Publicación: 08/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés