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Police Work

The Social Organization of Policing, Second Edition

Peter K. Manning

This revised edition of Peter Manning’s highly regarded work expands on the conceptual framework and arguments presented in the First Edition. Manning’s sociological approach is based on his fieldwork observing, interviewing, and sharing the day-to-day experiences of police in both the United Kingdom and the United States. The author has substantively rewritten and updated the volume. Coverage of technological advancements, current research statistics, citations to important and recent literature, revised tables, and contemporary examples all fuse with Manning’s original and still relevant core concepts. Today’s well-educated readers interested in understanding the occupation of policing and the role of police in society will find this informative book to be essential to their studies. Substantive changes enrich Manning’s original concepts: the text includes a detailed outline of current technological capabilities for gathering, screening, managing, and dispatching information; presents perspectives and findings based on recent studies and research; analyzes the effectiveness of community policing; examines the effects of social, political, and economic trends on policing in the U.K. and the U.S.; incorporates examples of change in police policy, namely issues of deadly force and police pursuit; and discusses mass media’s effects on policing.
 

$31.95 list, 372 pages

10-digit ISBN: 0-88133-953-9

13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-953-6

© 1997

“Once again Manning has done a great job of capturing the essence of policing from a social perspective.”   — Mark L. Dantzker, Georgia Southern University
 

“One of the few works in recent years that explores serious thinking about police. Excellent for advanced police theory.”   — Gary W. Sykes, Southwestern Law Enforcement Institute
 

“Manning’s review of this important work is, as usual, a clear, thoughtful and very insightful analysis of police work. His work has always shown a superlative grasp of the organizational and individual factors that shape police behavior.”   — Vincent E. Henry, C. W. Post College/LIU

Table of Contents

Introduction: Twenty Years of Police Work

Section I. PRELIMINARIES

1. The Symbolization of Police Work

2. The Dramatic Metaphor

3. The Rise of the Police

Section II. POLICING

4. The Police Mandate

5. Police Presentational Strategies

6. Police Organizations as Situationally Justified Action: Internal Aspects

7. Police Organizations as Situationally Justified Action: External Aspects

8. Limits on the Administrative Model of Policing as an Information Game

Section III. INTERPRETATIONS

9. Uncertainty, Sanctity, and Myth: Police Work as Ritual

10. Policy and the Police

Epilogue