Background
Rock, Paul Elliot was born on August 4, 1943 in London. Son of Ashley Rock and Charlotte Carnegie Dickson.
(This book examines the evolution of Government policies t...)
This book examines the evolution of Government policies toward victims of crime in the United Kingdom, and follows the author's View from the Shadows, which detailed official responses to the victims' movement in Canada. It attempts a fourfold task: to show how central institutions fostered what the Home Office came to regard as significant policies for victims of crime in England and Wales; to use those examples of policy-making to scout the topography of the criminal justice system; to make comparisons between the system and its Canadian counterpart; and, above all, to give the origins and early history of the National Association of Victims Support schemes. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociology, criminology, social behavior, social institutions and social administration.
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(Possibly the first ethnographic study of policy-making in...)
Possibly the first ethnographic study of policy-making in a Justice Ministry, this is a detailed empirical investigation of the evolution of the Canadian Federal Ministry of the Solicitor General's Justice for Victims of Crime Initiative. Tracing the beginnings of the initiative in the American victims' movement and academic victimology, it also discusses the work of senior Civil Servants who imported ideas about victims into the Ministry, and examines the development of those ideas in the context of debates about capital punishment, the reform of policing, and violence against women.
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Rock, Paul Elliot was born on August 4, 1943 in London. Son of Ashley Rock and Charlotte Carnegie Dickson.
Bachelor of Science in Sociology, London School of Economics, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, University Oxford, England, 1970.
Assistant lecturer, London School Economics and Political Science, 1967-1970;
lecturer, London School Economics and Political Science, 1970-1976;
senior lecturer, London School Economics and Political Science, 1976-1983;
reader, London School Economics and Political Science, 1983-1985;
professor sociology, London School Economics and Political Science, 1985-1995;
professor social institutions, London School Economics and Political Science, since 1995. Visiting professor Princeton University, 1974-1975. Visiting scholar Ministry of Solicitor General, Ottawa, Canada, 1981-1983.
Consultant British Broadcasting Corporation.
(Possibly the first ethnographic study of policy-making in...)
(This book examines the evolution of Government policies t...)
Fellow: British Academy, Royal Society Arts.
Married Barbara Ravid, September 25, 1965 (deceased 1998). Children: Matthew, Oliver.