TY  - BOOK
AU  - Manning,Peter K.
TI  - Policing contingencies
SN  - 9780226503523 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HV7936.C79 M356 2003eb
U1  - 363.2 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Communication in police administration
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - United States
KW  - Police administration
KW  - Citizen participation
KW  - Police and mass media
KW  - Police
KW  - Communication dans l'administration de la police
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Administration
KW  - Participation des citoyens
KW  - Police et médias
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Freedom & Security
KW  - Law Enforcement
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Politie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Organisatie
KW  - Organisatiecultuur
KW  - Rollen (sociale wetenschappen)
KW  - Communicatie
KW  - Informatietechnologie
KW  - Dramaturgie
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 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
N2  - 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
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