This book is a Festschrift in honour of Paul Rock, former Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. The edited volume 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.

INTRODUCTION: PAUL ROCK ; POEM ON THE OCCASION OF PAUL ROCK'S RETIREMENT ; 1. Cesare Lombroso and the reaction to his work in the United States ; 2. Making, untangling and futuring symbolic interactionism ; 3. Paul Rock's Sociology: A critique of themes in contemporary criminology ; 4. Influences on Criminal Justice Policy 1959-2009 ; 5. Reflections on Criminal Justice as a Social Institution ; 6. Prisons Policy: The Redevelopment of Holloway Prison ; 7. Transforming the reformers: punitiveness in Canadian federally sentenced women's corrections ; 8. Theories of Policing: A Social Democratic Critique ; 9. A Virtuous Exception? The Macpherson Inquiry and Report into the Murder of Stephen Lawrence and its Investigation ; 10. Suicide and Homicide in Psychiatric Hospitals: Caring for Victims? ; 11. Appreciating the Broad Reach of Serious Crime and the Interpretive Power of Claims to Secondary Victimization ; 12. <"I Looked at This as a Beautiful Experience>": Mass Incarceration and the Secondary Prisonization of Intimate Relationships ; 13. Paul Rock and the Criminology of Law-Making: Contingency, Emotions and a Defiance Theory of Victims' Rights