Books by Paul (Professor of Sociology Rock

The Social World of an English Crown Court analyses the routine organization of everyday life and work in a middle level metropolitan court. Completing the trilogy begun with A View from the Shadows and Helping Victims of Crime, this new work is unique in British criminology and socio-legal studies and should be essential reading for every serious scholar working in this area.

Holloway Prison for Women was rebuilt in the expectation that it would revolutionize the treatment of female offenders. However, the new regime housed in the new building became notorious. Reconstructing a Women's Prison describes the changes in penal ideology and conceptions of women's criminality as they fed into the design of this new prison in the 1970s and 80s.