Police Work: The Social Organization of Policing

by Peter K. Manning

Book Overview

Based on extensive fieldwork in England and the United States, Police Workarticulates a perspective on policing as an activity, as an organization, as a set of symbolic repertoires and situated actions, and as a source of myth, drama, and commonsense theories of social conduct. The evolution of a public mandate for policing as it is practiced today has resulted in the dilemma Manning sets forth in his introductory chapter: "They have charted a course...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262131307
• ISBN13: 9780262131308
• Release Date: September 1977
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.