The Eternal Recurrence of Crime and Control: Essays in Honour of Paul Rock

Edited by David Downes, Dick Hobbs, and Tim Newburn

Clarendon Studies in Criminology

336 pages | 216x138mm

978-0-19-958023-1 | Hardback | 08 July 2010

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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
Offers an exploration of the theories which underpin policing in the UK
Provides a critical analysis of the Macpherson enquiry
Draws on Paul Rock's work with victims and secondary victims of homicide
Contributors are drawn from a distinguished group of criminologists in Britain and America

The Eternal Recurrence of Crime and Control features contributions from a distinguished group of criminologists from the UK, the US and Australia, brought together to honour the work of Paul Rock, former Professor of Social Institutions at the London School of Economics. Edited by Tim Newburn, David Downes and Dick Hobbs, it offers an exploration of the theories which underpin much of current criminological thinking.

The resulting thirteen essays all examine and build upon the central themes associated with Paul Rock's work: social and criminological theory, policy development and policy-making, and victims and victimology. Together, the chapters draw on some of his landmark publications for inspiration and discuss the key findings presented over his 50 year career. These include his contribution to the theoretical development of symbolic interactionism and approaches to sociological theory and practice, as well as an analysis of the concept of criminal justice as a social institution and the resurgence of treatment programmes for women offenders. Also of note is a critical study of the Macpherson enquiry into the death of Stephen Lawrence, an ethnographic exploration of the repercussions of incarceration on prisoners' families and inmates, and two papers drawing on Paul Rock's work with victims and secondary victims of homicide.

Readership: Academics, scholars, and advanced students of crime and criminology, politics, and sociolegal studies, advanced students of policing studies .

Edited by David Downes, Professor Emeritus of Social Policy and a former Director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at the London School of Economics, Dick Hobbs, Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, and Tim Newburn, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy at the London School of Economics

Contributors:
Megan Comfort is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at University of California, San Francisco and a visiting fellow at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rachel Condry is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey.

David Downes is Professor Emeritus of Social Administration at the London School of Economics.

David Faulkner is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford.

Nigel Fielding is Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, University of Surrey.

Stephanie Hayman is an Assistant Professor of Criminology, University of Alberta.

Frances Heidensohn is a Visiting Professor in the Sociology Department at London School of Economics and Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of London.

Simon Holdaway is Professor of Criminology and Sociology, University of Sheffield.

Jill Peay is Professor of Law and a member of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at London School of Economics, and an Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers.

Elaine Player is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Kings College London.

Ken Plummer is Professor of Sociology, University of Essex.

Nicola Rafter is a Senior Research Fellow, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University.

Robert Reiner is Professor of Criminology in the Law Department, London School of Economics.

Lawrence Sherman is Wolfson Professor of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

Heather Strang is Director of the Centre for Restorative Justice, Australian National Universities.

P.A.J. Waddington is Professor of Social Policy at the Policy Research Institute, University of Wolverhampton.

Lucia Zedner is Professor of Criminal Justice, Law Faculty and the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford; Senior Law Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford; and Conjoint Professor at the Law Faculty, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

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