Policing contingencies

Policing contingencies / Peter K. Manning.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Manning, Peter K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Communication in police administration > Great Britain.
Communication in police administration > United States.
Police administration > Great Britain > Citizen participation.
Police administration > United States > Citizen participation.
Police and mass media > Great Britain.
Police and mass media > United States.
Police > Great Britain.
Police > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Law Enforcement.
Communication in police administration
Police
Police administration > Citizen participation
Police and mass media
Politie.
Organisatie.
Organisatiecultuur.
Rollen (sociale wetenschappen)
Communicatie.
Informatietechnologie.
Dramaturgie.
Great Britain
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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