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1 online resource (xii, 298 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-289) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Communication in police administration -- Great Britain.
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Communication in police administration. |
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Great Britain. |
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Communication in police administration -- United States.
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United States. |
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Police administration -- Great Britain -- Citizen participation.
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Police administration. |
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Political participation. |
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Police administration -- United States -- Citizen participation.
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Police and mass media -- Great Britain.
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Police and mass media. |
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Police and mass media -- United States.
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Police -- Great Britain.
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Police. |
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Police -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Police. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Manning, Peter K. Policing contingencies. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003 9780226503516 (DLC) 2002155304 (OCoLC)51264653 |
| ISBN |
9780226503523 (electronic book) |
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0226503526 (electronic book) |
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9780226503516 |
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0226503518 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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