Policing contingencies:
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Main Author: Manning, Peter K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2003
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-289) and index
Preface and Acknowlegments; Part One: Policing Contingencies; 1. Policing Contingencies; 2. Aspects of the Anglo-American Police Organization; Part Two: Picturing Policing; 3. Media, Reflexivity, and the Mandate; 4. The Dynamics of Police Reflection; Part Three: Technologies and Information; 5. The Car and Driver as the Basic Police Technology; 6. Horizons of Technology; 7. Processes: Information Technology as a Source of Drama; Part Four: Police Roles and Change; 8. Police Roles and Change; 9. Risk, Trust, and Reflection; Part Five: Reflections; 10. Reprise
Despite constant calls for reform, policing in the United States and Britain has changed little over the past thirty years. In Policing Contingencies, Peter K. Manning draws on decades of fieldwork to investigate how law enforcement works on the ground and in the symbolic realm, and why most efforts to reform the way police work have failed so far. Manning begins by developing a model of policing as drama--a way of communicating various messages to the public in an effort to enforce moral boundaries. Unexpected outcomes, or contingencies, continually rewrite the plot of this drama, requiring off
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 298 pages)
ISBN:0226503526
9780226503516
9780226503523

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