Paul Rock
Biographic Data
| ID | 104658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Rock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Rock |
| SIGNATURE | ROCK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 91 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 323 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 86 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Underscoring the importance of fieldwork when drafting notes from the field
The Role of Victim Advocacy in Criminal Justice Reform in England and Wales
The victims of volume crime in England and Wales are aided by a major institution, Victim Support, but their voices are rarely heard when policy matters are discussed. Many victims of traumatic crimes are organized and purposeful, but they have not come together into a united front. It is the English and Welsh groups supporting abused women, groups amounting to a social movement, that have made the most visible impression on the politics of crimi…
Deviance, Theories of
The most influential sociological definition of deviance was issued in 1963 by Howard Becker who emphasized its most important characteristic, not as a property of an act or actor, but as a designation bestowed by a social audience. The sociology of deviance itself had its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s when it appeared to be a serious rival to criminology proper, but it was then eclipsed or sublated to become, for many, not much more than another…
The role of the Church of England in the liberalising of criminal legislation of the 1960s
This paper describes the rather neglected role played by committees of the Church of England in rewording and promoting a set of arguments that facilitated the reform of a number of repressive laws in mid-twentieth century England and Wales. It is in part a comment on the manner in which the Church provided a clear-eyed understanding of some of the major moral upheavals of the time, drawing on classic utilitarian principles. It is also a comment …
Practice and Progress: British Sociology 1950–1980
Deviance and Social Control
Practice and Progress: British Sociology 1950-1980
Practice and Progress: British Sociology 1950-1980
Drugs and Politics
Reconstructing and reporting the history of a social problem is always a diffi cult and speculative enterprise. Substantial areas of the problem may never have been recorded because they were covert or concealed. Those unknown areas form an uncertain context for interpreting the residue that was intentionally or unwittingly left for others to examine. The residue itself is composed of contributions made by people who were often engaged in masking…
Making of Symbolic Interactionism
Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking
Understanding Deviance provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of criminological theory. It outlines the principal theories of crime, deviance, and rule-breaking, discussing them chronologically, and placing them in their European and North American contexts considering major criticisms that have been voiced against them, and constructing defences where appropriate. The volume has been revised and brought up-to-date to include new iss…
Prison Life, Sociology of
Crime, Social Control and Human Rights: From Moral Panics to States of Denial, Essays in Honour of Stanley Cohen
Crime, Social Control and Human Rights
The public faces of public criminology
There have recently been a number of calls for a public criminology – although the term is ill-defined – as if such a criminology were quite new. A vigorous public criminology did indeed once exist in England and Wales but it presented problems to the politician, policy-maker and scholar, and it became largely forgotten. If a public criminology is to re-emerge, it must contend with a spate of presentational difficulties which appear to have been …
Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking
'Understanding Deviance' provides an indispensable guide to the major themes and theories which have come to form the sociology of crime and deviance, from their origins in the research of the University of Chicago sociology department in the 1920s to the most recent work in cultural criminology
The Politics of Crime ControlEssays in Honour of David Downes: Essays in Honour of David Downes
This book brings together ten leading British criminologists to explore the contemporary politics of crime and its control. The volume is produced in honour of Britain's most important criminological scholar — David Downes of the London School of Economics. The chapters are grouped around the three major themes that run through David Downes' work — sociological theory, crime and deviance; comparative penal policy; and the politics of crime. The t…
Deviance, Theories of
Deviance” and its companion words, deviant and deviation, have their roots in Latin and point to a straying from the via , road or path. Some of its variants have a long history: the thirteenth‐century Romance of the Rose , for example, talks of “deviant” in the sense of being out of the way; “deviation” appeared in publications in the sixteenth century; and Durkheim powerfully foreshadowed its sociological usage in Les Règles de la méthode socio…
Caesare Lombroso as a signal criminologist
This article is based on a contribution made to a panel discussion at the November 2005 meetings of the American Society of Criminology, a discussion that was triggered by a celebration of Nicole Rafter's and Mary Gibson's new translation of Caesare Lombroso's Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman. It dwells on how Lombroso and his book were generally received in the United Kingdom; how his ideas were in the main soon rejected but …
Policy Bureaucracy: Government With a Cast of Thousands – By E. Page and B. Jenkins
The Vertigo of Late Modernity - By J. Young
Urban Homelessness, Crime and Victimisation in England
A survey of homeless people carried out in the centres of three English cities in 2004 revealed unusually high levels of victimisation and offending, an engrained mistrust of the police and other formal institutions, and an ensuing recourse to informal justice which exacerbated insecurity and raised levels of crime and victimisation yet further
Experimental Study of Ostensibly Shamanic Journeying Imagery in Naïve Participants II: Phenomenological Mapping and Modified Affect Bridge
This study develops the methodological framework advanced in Rock, Baynes, and Casey's (2005) experimental study of ostensibly shamanic journeying imagery in naïve participants. Specifically, the present study experimentally investigates the impact of the word landscape, featured in Harner's (1990) shamanic journeying to the Lower World instructions, on the number of landscape-related images reported; examines the origins of ostensibly shamanic j…
Thinking About Criminology
Alongside a revival of interest in Thomism in philosophy, scholars have realised its relevance when addressing certain contemporary issues in bioethics. This book offers a rigorous interpretation of Aquinas's metaphysics and ethical thought, and highlights its significance to questions in bioethics. Jason T. Eberl applies Aquinas’s views on the seminal topics of human nature and morality to key questions in bioethics at the margins of human life …
Chronocentrism and British criminology
Criminologists display a largely unexamined propensity to ignore writings that are more than fifteen or so years old, with evident consequences for the public presentation and validation of expert knowledge. A citation study was combined with detailed observations from British criminologists to ascertain quite how that disavowal of the past was accomplished
The Making of Symbolic Interactionism
Practice and Progress: British Sociology 1950-1980
Chronocentrism and British criminology
Criminologists display a largely unexamined propensity to ignore writings that are more than fifteen or so years old, with evident consequences for the public presentation and validation of expert knowledge. A citation study was combined with detailed observations from British criminologists to ascertain quite how that disavowal of the past was accomplished
Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking
'Understanding Deviance' provides an indispensable guide to the major themes and theories which have come to form the sociology of crime and deviance, from their origins in the research of the University of Chicago sociology department in the 1920s to the most recent work in cultural criminology
The Delinquent Solution
The concept of the 'subculture' has undergone considerable development in sociology, and has emerged as a separate field of study. It has proved useful as a tool with which to describe aspects of adult and juvenile deviance in America. Although adult subcultures have been documented in this country, Downes finds no evidence in secondary sources for the existence of a delinquent subculture here. Writing on delinquent subcultures has followed a dis…
A History of British Criminology
Foreword. British criminology before 1935 Hermann Mannheim British criminology - 1935-1948 the development of criminology in Britain - 1948-1960 British criminology - 1960-1987 the present state of British criminology methodological developments psychological contributions to criminology feminism and criminology in Britain criminal justice and the criminal process the history of crime British criminology and the state British criminology and Marx…
Macmillan Student Encyclopedia of Sociology
The Macmillan Student Encyclopedia of Sociology is a major comprehensive encyclopedia aimed at all students of social science. The book explains all the important sociological terms, theories, concept
Phenomenalism and Essentialism in the Sociology of Deviancy
The sociology of deviancy is emerging as a distinctive perspective on problems of rule-breaking and social control. Among its integral features is an antipathy towards the systematisation of its ideas. This antipathy has allowed the developing perspective to maintain contradictory positions on important issues. In particular, there is a contradiction between the sociology's phenomenalism, which stresses the need to faithfully reproduce the social…
Some Problems of Interpretative Historiography
The Sociology of Deviancy and Conceptions of Moral Order
Journal Article THE SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCY AND CONCEPTIONS OF MORAL ORDER Get access PAUL ROCK, D.Phil PAUL ROCK, D.Phil *Department of Sociology, The London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 14, Issue 2, April 1974, Pages 139–149, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a046531 Published: 01 April 1974
Rules, Boundaries and the Courts: Some Problems in the Neo-Durkheimian Sociology of Deviance
This paper examines a very simple theme in sociology. It is so simple that it has tended either to be accepted or neglected but very rarely, it seems, critically reviewed. The sociology of crime and deviance concentrates on the problematics of ruling, rule-enforcement and rule-observance, and one of the neo-Durkheimian tenets held by many of its practitioners is that rules are reinforced and revealed in the boundary-defining work of institutions …
The Present State of Criminology in Britain
Journal Article THE PRESENT STATE OF CRIMINOLOGY IN BRITAIN Get access PAUL ROCK PAUL ROCK London School of Economics and Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Spring 1988, Pages 58–69, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047728 Published: 01 March 1988
A View from the Shadows
Murderers, Victims and 'Survivors: The Social Construction of Deviance
Two visions of homicide, murderers and victims are contrasted. One, conventional in criminology, has it that murders are the culmination of drawn-out, acrimonious transactions occurring within demographically homogeneous sectors of the population. It leads to a blurring of moral identities and causal relations. The other is championed by homicide ‘survivors’ organizations, and it claims an existentially validated authority. Homicide is experience…
Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule Breaking
This is a non-partisan review of the major sociological theories of crime and deviance. It begins with the work of the Chicago School of the 1920s and proceeds chronologically through the main theoretical positions to reach contemporary work on Left Realism and feminist criminology. The principal aim is to introduce students to ideas in a manner that is clear and accessible but not biased. The strengths and weaknesses of each theory are assessed …
Urban Homelessness, Crime and Victimisation in England
A survey of homeless people carried out in the centres of three English cities in 2004 revealed unusually high levels of victimisation and offending, an engrained mistrust of the police and other formal institutions, and an ensuing recourse to informal justice which exacerbated insecurity and raised levels of crime and victimisation yet further
The public faces of public criminology
There have recently been a number of calls for a public criminology – although the term is ill-defined – as if such a criminology were quite new. A vigorous public criminology did indeed once exist in England and Wales but it presented problems to the politician, policy-maker and scholar, and it became largely forgotten. If a public criminology is to re-emerge, it must contend with a spate of presentational difficulties which appear to have been …
Experimental Study of Ostensibly Shamanic Journeying Imagery in Naïve Participants II: Phenomenological Mapping and Modified Affect Bridge
This study develops the methodological framework advanced in Rock, Baynes, and Casey's (2005) experimental study of ostensibly shamanic journeying imagery in naïve participants. Specifically, the present study experimentally investigates the impact of the word landscape, featured in Harner's (1990) shamanic journeying to the Lower World instructions, on the number of landscape-related images reported; examines the origins of ostensibly shamanic j…
The Opening Stages of Criminal Justice Policy Making
Journal Article THE OPENING STAGES OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY MAKING Get access PAUL ROCK PAUL ROCK *Department of Sociology and Mannheim Centre, London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 35, Issue 1, winter 1995, Pages 1–16, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a048466 Published: 01 January 1995
Observations on Debt Collection
Witnesses and Space in a Crown Court
The social world of a Crown Court is differentiated into groups segregated practically, symbolically, and physically, Prosecution witnesses, in particular, are kept apart from professional ‘court users’. They are expected to behave in ways that present problems of control, and the special architecture and organization of the Court are a response. Their segregation may explain some of the pariah status of victims at large
Governments, Victims and Policies in Two Countries
Policies and programmes for the victims of crime are beginning to emerge in Canada, the United Kingdom and elsewhere. In Canada, the federal Government launched its Justice for Victims of Crime Initiative and spent money trying to prompt a relatively inert private sector into organising itself. In England and Wales, a rapidly expanding National Association of Victims Support Schemes repeatedly petitioned an apparently unresponsive Government for …
On the Birth of Organizations
The Politics of Victimization: Victims, Victimology and Human Rights
This useful text provides a comprehensive introductory overview of the study of victims and victimization. Victimization is here considered as a reflection of American society. Taking a broad perspective, Elias argues that the study of victimology requires more than merely analyzing criminal justice; it requires linking it to much wider social, political and economic relations--especially to the American political economy. This study rejects the …
Another Common-Sense Conception of Deviancy
Any sociological description is an organisation of perspectives which necessarily throws certain ideas out of focus. The sociology of deviance has characteristically ignored one major quality of crime, its capacity to inflict distress upon people. Not all crimes impose suffering, and not all forms of inflicted suffering are illegal, but the criminal law is conventionally held to be concerned with the regulation of damage to the physical or materi…
The Delinquent Solution
The concept of the 'subculture' has undergone considerable development in sociology, and has emerged as a separate field of study. It has proved useful as a tool with which to describe aspects of adult and juvenile deviance in America. Although adult subcultures have been documented in this country, Downes finds no evidence in secondary sources for the existence of a delinquent subculture here. Writing on delinquent subcultures has followed a dis…
The Social Organization of Juvenile Justice
Observations on Debt Collection
Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas
Social Reaction to Deviance and Its Effects on Crime and Criminal Careers
IThe emergence of the social control perspective in the study of crime and criminal careers has accelerated the movement from a conception of criminology as almost exclusively preoccupied with pathogenetic explanations of crime and delinquency to a sociology of deviance which seeks to locate the study of crime and delinquency in a much broader and more complex perspective concerned with the processes whereby different forms of deviance are define…
On Record: Files & Dossiers In American Life
Sociological Work: Method and Substance
Phenomenalism and Essentialism in the Sociology of Deviancy
The sociology of deviancy is emerging as a distinctive perspective on problems of rule-breaking and social control. Among its integral features is an antipathy towards the systematisation of its ideas. This antipathy has allowed the developing perspective to maintain contradictory positions on important issues. In particular, there is a contradiction between the sociology's phenomenalism, which stresses the need to faithfully reproduce the social…
Comment on Mugford
Deviant Behavior
The Sociology of Deviancy and Conceptions of Moral Order
Journal Article THE SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCY AND CONCEPTIONS OF MORAL ORDER Get access PAUL ROCK, D.Phil PAUL ROCK, D.Phil *Department of Sociology, The London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 14, Issue 2, April 1974, Pages 139–149, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a046531 Published: 01 April 1974
Deviant Behaviour
Making People Pay
Making People Pay
Private Lives and Public Surveillance
Social Problems and Public Policy: Deviance and Liberty
Some Problems of Interpretative Historiography
Consumers in Trouble: A Study of Debtors in Default
Consumers in Trouble: A Study of Debtors in Default
Profane Culture
Problematic Aspects of the Interactionist Idea of Self
In its original formulation, the interactionist model of the self offered a limited but useful description of the relations between mind, body and society. It was useful because it referred to observable and communal processes which shaped mind. It permitted a synthesis of the different phases of social and individual process into one master scheme. The model was limited because it did not pretend to embrace private, subjective experience. It was…
The Roots of Symbolic Interactionism
Although it seems to be philosophically disinherited, symbolic interactionism is a full heir to the intellectual traditions and positions which were developed in nineteenth-century Europe. Like every other sociology, it offers one strategy for confronting the epistemological problems posed by the unresolved nature of social reality. Kant gave those problems a special clarity and poignancy, and it was Kantian philosophy which served as a basis for…
Participant Observation
Participant observation is perhaps the pivotal strategy of interactionism. It is a concrete demonstration of the pragmatist emphasis on practice. The methodology uses the self of the sociologist as a tool to explore social process. It directs the sociologist to place himself in the scenes which he wishes to analyse, requiring him to observe and participate at the same time. Its justification stems from the definition of knowledge as an ongoing pr…
Symbolic Interactionism as an Understated Sociology
Symbolic interactionism is an unusual sociology whose vision, style, methods and accompanying social organisation display common qualities. It is unusual because it suppresses those arguments and conventions which would make it systematic and readily communicable. Instead of clearly announcing its principles and techniques, it resorts to understatement and covert argument. By orthodox sociological standards it lacks many of the features which cha…
Pragmatism and Symbolic Interactionism
Formalism was one vital constituent of interactionism. Pragmatism was the other. Superficially at variance with formalism, it offered yet another solution to the problems posed by the gulf between observer and observed. It may be read as a transcription of the Hegelian rejection of Kant’s dualities between mind and matter, subject and object, knowledge and known. Hegel denied the reality of those dualities, asserting instead the fundamental unity…
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