Professor Paul Rock FBA

Law
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
2000
Subjects
Law, Sociology

Summary

Paul Rock has been Emeritus Professor Sociology at the London School of Economics since 2008. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fellow of the Regulatory Institutions Network of the Australian National University. He has been a Visiting Professor at a number of institutions, including Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Solicitor General of Canada and the University of Macau. His interests focus on the development of criminal justice policies, especially for victims, and criminological theory. He has just completed his portion of an official history of criminal justice.

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science

Past appointments

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Professor of Sociology

1970 -

University of Pennsylvania Visiting Professor

1970 -

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Professor of Social Institutions

1970 -

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Emeritus Professor of Social Institutions

1970 -

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Emeritus Professor of Social Institutions

1970 -

Publications

The Social World of an English Crown Court 1993

Making People Pay, 1973 and 2013

11. Victims, Policy-Making and Criminological Theory: Selected Essays, 2010

A view from the shadows 1986

Reconstructing a women's prison 1996

After homicide 1998

Constructing Victims' Rights 2004

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