The Police Mandate
Organizational analysis
1st Edition
Published on 5. January 2026
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-415-65732-7 (ISBN)
Description
Peter K Manning has been a key figure in scholarship on police organization for the past three decades. His work has been widely celebrated for its contribution to key debates on democratic policing, crime analysis and technology.
Building on a wealth of original ethnographic research, in this book Manning develops his dramaturgical framework to formulate a theory of police organization. The Police Mandate will be essential reading for all policing scholars, as well as sociologists and criminologists alike.
Building on a wealth of original ethnographic research, in this book Manning develops his dramaturgical framework to formulate a theory of police organization. The Police Mandate will be essential reading for all policing scholars, as well as sociologists and criminologists alike.
Reviews / Votes
"Peter K. Manning has been a key contributor to the sociology of policing field for over three decades. In this volume he further formulates the dramaturgical perspective and ethnographic work on policing to produce vivid insights into the police organization which, all too often, is depicted as a highly organized, well-administered and cleverly led social institution subject only to the occasional scandal or mishap. Manning produces a subtle account of policing which shows why it is so regularly mis-represented in media accounts and why management texts that focus on police administrative models are so often inconsistent with the facts."James Sheptycki, York University, Canada
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-65732-7 (9780415657327)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Peter K. Manning is Elmer V.H. and Eileen M. Brooks Chair in Policing at Northeastern University, USA.
Content
1. Introduction, Part I. The Dramaturgical Framework, 2. Drama, the Police and the Sacred, 3. The Police Mandate, 4. Theorizing Policing: The Drama and Myth of Crime Control in the NYPD, 5. Policing as a Self-Audited Practice, Part II. Inter-organizational Analysis, 6. Transformation: the emergent growth of cooperation among police agencies, 7. Two Cases of Democratic Policing: Anti-Terrorism in action, 8. Policing New Social Spaces, 9. Terrorism and the Configurations of Policing, Part III. Police and Police Technology, 10. Technological Dramas and the Police: Statement and Counter-Statement in Organizational Analysis, 11. New Developments in Police Technology, Part IV. Methods and ethnographic research, 12. Access and Problems of Access, 13. Thin Ethnography: problems of access and analysis in Fieldwork, 14. Faery Tales, 15. Epilogue.