Manning, Peter K. <br/><br/>
Policing contingencies  [electronic resource] / 
Peter K. Manning. 
 -  University of Chicago Press,  2003. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 298 p.) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-289) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226503523 (electronic bk.) 0226503526 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Communication in police administration--Great Britain.<br/>Communication in police administration--United States.<br/>Police administration--Citizen participation.--Great Britain<br/>Police administration--Citizen participation.--United States<br/>Police and mass media--Great Britain.<br/>Police and mass media--United States.<br/>Police--Great Britain.<br/>Police--United States.<br/>Communication dans l'administration de la police--Grande-Bretagne.<br/>Communication dans l'administration de la police--États-Unis.<br/>Police--Administration--Participation des citoyens.--Grande-Bretagne<br/>Police--Administration--Participation des citoyens.--États-Unis<br/>Police et médias--Grande-Bretagne.<br/>Police et médias--États-Unis.<br/>Police--Grande-Bretagne.<br/>Police--États-Unis.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Law Enforcement.<br/>Politie.<br/>Organisatie.<br/>Organisatiecultuur.<br/>Rollen (sociale wetenschappen)<br/>Communicatie.<br/>Informatietechnologie.<br/>Dramaturgie.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV7936.C79  / M356 2003eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.2