Peter Manning

The Police Mandate

Organizational analysis

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Produktbeschreibung

Building on a wealth of original ethnographic research, in this book Manning develops his dramaturgical framework to formulate a theory of police organization. The Police Mandate will be essential reading for all policing scholars, as well as sociologists and criminologists alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780415657327
• ISBN-10: 0415657326
• Artikelnr.: 40185645

Autorenporträt

Peter K. Manning is Elmer V.H. and Eileen M. Brooks Chair in Policing at Northeastern University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I. The Dramaturgical Framework
2. Drama
the Police and the Sacred
3. The Police Mandate
4. Theorizing Policing: The Drama and Myth of Crime Control in the NYPD
5. Policing as a Self-Audited Practice
Part II. Inter-organizational Analysis
6. Transformation: the emergent growth of cooperation among police agencies
7. Two Cases of Democratic Policing: Anti-Terrorism in action
8. Policing New Social Spaces
9. Terrorism and the Configurations of Policing
Part III. Police and Police Technology
10. Technological Dramas and the Police: Statement and Counter-Statement in Organizational Analysis
11. New Developments in Police Technology
Part IV. Methods and ethnographic research
12. Access and Problems of Access
13. Thin Ethnography: problems of access and analysis in Fieldwork
14. Faery Tales
15. Epilogue.