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Paul Rock began studying sociological criminology in 1961 and his intellectual history has run parallel to and in conversation with the evolution of the discipline over that long period. He became a professional scholar when symbolic interactionism, sociological phenomenology and 'labelling theory' were taking form within criminology, and it is to those ways of viewing the social world that he still clings, although he has sought also to reflect critically upon them as time went by. Having completed a DPhil dissertation on debt collection as a moral career, and largely as a matter of serendipity, he was to take to empirical research just as policies for victims of crime were being developed by governments across the developed world and, finding himself embedded as a visitor in a Canadian federal criminal justice ministry when a federal-provincial task force was being mooted, he was able to embark on the first of a sequence of field studies of policy-making centred chiefly on victims. Those two interlaced preoccupations, theoretical and empirical, continually informed much, if not all, of his subsequent work, contributing to what has been, in effect, a running series of comparative ethnographies of government decision-making about the role of the victim in and around the criminal justice system.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Victims, Policy-making and Criminological Theory
• Author: Paul Rock
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 380
• EAN: 9780754629269
• ISBN: 0754629260
• ID: 04678705
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 930 g
• Dimensions: 246 × 174 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. April 2010

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