Background
Manning, Peter Kirby was born on September 27, 1940 in Salem, Oregon, United States. Son of Kenneth Gilbert and Esther Amelia (Gibbard) Manning.
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The Technology of Policing: Crime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime Control (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law) by Manning, Peter (2008) Hardcover
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Semiotics and Fieldwork (Qualitative Research Methods) by Manning, Peter K. (1987) Paperback
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Policing Contingencies
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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 officers to adjust accordingly. New information technologies, media scrutiny and representations, and community policing also play important roles, and Manning studies these influences in detail. He concludes that their impacts have been quite limited, because the basic structure of policing—officer assessments based on encounters during routine patrols—has remained unchanged. For policing to really change, Manning argues, its focus will need to shift to prevention. Written with precision and judiciously argued, Policing Contingencies will be of value to scholars of sociology, criminology, information technology, and cultural theory.
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Policing Contingencies 1st edition by Peter K. Manning (2003) Hardcover
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Police Work: The Social Organization of Policing
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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: 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.
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Semiotics and Fieldwork (Qualitative Research Methods)
(Ethnographic fieldwork and formal linguistic analysis hav...)
Ethnographic fieldwork and formal linguistic analysis have traditionally been thought to be diametrically opposed. In this provocative analysis Peter Manning argues that these methods of qualitative research are complementary. After examining the potential benefits and limitations of each method of analysis, the author shows how a synthesis of the two is more powerful than either alone.
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Semiotics and Fieldwork SEMIOTICS AND FIELDWORK By Manning, Peter K. ( Author )Jun-01-1987 Paperback
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Ethnographic fieldwork and formal linguistic analysis have traditionally been thought to be diametrically opposed. In this provocative analysis Peter Manning argues that these methods of qualitative research are complementary. After examining the potential benefits and limitations of each method of analysis, the author shows how a synthesis of the two is more powerful than either alone.
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The sociology of mental health and illness (The Bobbs-Merrill studies in sociology)
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Symbolic Communication: Signifying Calls and the Police Response (Organization Studies)
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This first major empirical work on the semiotics of social action goes a long way toward answering substantive, theoretical and pragmatic questions on how codes actually operate in a specific social setting. It underscores the important yet often ignored role of the police as "sign" or "information workers." Calls to the police represent a rich variety of human troubles, concerns, and needs by focusing on how police handle calls from the public, how they ascertain what a call means and what should be done with it, and how this is transformed through subsystems within the organization, Peter Manning provides a novel way of looking at organizational communication. Symbolic Communication provides examples of how members of an organization interpret their environment - in this instance, how the meaning of a call to the police is transformed as it moves across the boundaries of the organization (a transformation that involves a series of codings and recodings ensuring a continuous loose linkage of organization and environment). Manning shows why the police act in ways that differ from the way citizens and politicians would have them act, revealing the uncertainties that surround a policy agency's responsiveness. And he points out how today's computer technologies constrain the coding process, limiting in particular the effectiveness of the 911 systems used in most of our major cities. Peter K. Manning is a Professor of Psychiatry and of Sociology at Michigan State University and a member of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford. Symbolic Communication brings to fruition themes and ideas introduced in his previous books, Police Work and The Narc's Game. Symbolic Communication is included in the Organization Studies series, edited by John van Maanen.
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The Technology of Policing: Crime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime Control (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law)
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With the rise of surveillance technology in the last decade, police departments now have an array of sophisticated tools for tracking, monitoring, even predicting crime patterns. In particular crime mapping, a technique used by the police to monitor crime by the neighborhoods in their geographic regions, has become a regular and relied-upon feature of policing. Many claim that these technological developments played a role in the crime drop of the 1990s, and yet no study of these techniques and their relationship to everyday police work has been made available. Noted scholar Peter K. Manning spent six years observing three American police departments and two British constabularies in order to determine what effects these kinds of analytic tools have had on modern police management and practices. While modern technology allows the police to combat crime in sophisticated, detail-oriented ways, Manning discovers that police strategies and tactics have not been altogether transformed as perhaps would be expected. In The Technology of Policing, Manning untangles the varying kinds of complex crime-control rhetoric that underlie much of today’s police department discussion and management, and provides valuable insight into which are the most effective—and which may be harmful—in successfully tracking criminal behavior. The Technology of Policing offers a new understanding of the changing world of police departments and information technology’s significant and undeniable influence on crime management.
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- Policing Contingencies
- Symbolic Communication: Signifying Calls and the Police Response (Organization Studies series) by Peter K. Manning (2003-01-01)
- Symbolic Communication: Signifying Calls and the Police Response (Organization Studies series) (This first major empirical work on the semiotics of socia...)
- Semiotics and Fieldwork (Qualitative Research Methods) by Peter K. Manning (1987-06-01)
Peter Kirby Manning
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Peter Kirby Manning, criminal justice educator. Member American Society Criminology, American Sociological Association, Academy Criminal Justice Sciences, British Society Criminology, International Sociological Association, Midwest Sociological Society, Society Study Social Problems, Society Study Symbolic Interaction (special recognition award 1990, vice president 1992-1993, program chair 1993), International Society Semiotics and Law.
Education
Bachelor, Willamette University, 1961. Master of Arts, Duke University, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, Duke University, 1966.
Master of Arts (honorary), Oxford University, England, 1983.
Career
Instructor sociology Duke University, 1964-1965. Assistant professor sociology University Missouri, 1965-1966, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1966-1970, associate professor sociology and psychiatry, 1970-1974, professor, since 1974. Professor criminal justice, since 1993.
Beto chair lecturer Sam Houston State University, 1990. Ameritech lecturer E. Kentucky University, 1993. Visiting lecturer University Las Andes, Meridá Venezuela, 2001—2003, 2005.
Visiting professor University Victoria, 1968, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982, State University of New York, Albany, 1982, University Michigan, 1990—1991, York University, Toronto, 1999. Visiting senior scholar Northeastern University College Criminal Justice, 2001, E.V. and Engineer of Mines Brooks chair, since 2001. Consultant National Institute Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, United States Department Justice, Research Triangle Institute, National Science Foundation, National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia, since 1980, Social Science Research Council England, Agency for International Development, Jamaica, 1991, Sheehy committee Police Pay and Performance, England, 1993.
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Symbolic Communication: Signifying Calls and the Police Response (Organization Studies series)
( This first major empirical work on the semiotics of soc...)
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Symbolic Communication: Signifying Calls and the Police Response (Organization Studies)
(This first major empirical work on the semiotics of socia...)
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The Technology of Policing: Crime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime Control (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law)
( With the rise of surveillance technology in the last de...)
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Police Work: The Social Organization of Policing
(This revised edition of Peter Manning's highly regarded w...)
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Policing Contingencies
( Despite constant calls for reform, policing in the Unit...)
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Semiotics and Fieldwork (Qualitative Research Methods)
(Ethnographic fieldwork and formal linguistic analysis hav...)
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Semiotics and Fieldwork SEMIOTICS AND FIELDWORK By Manning, Peter K. ( Author )Jun-01-1987 Paperback
(Ethnographic fieldwork and formal linguistic analysis hav...)
- Policing Contingencies
- Symbolic Communication: Signifying Calls and the Police Response (Organization Studies series) by Peter K. Manning (2003-01-01)
- The Technology of Policing: Crime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime Control (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law) by Manning, Peter (2008) Hardcover
- Semiotics and Fieldwork (Qualitative Research Methods) by Manning, Peter K. (1987) Paperback
- Policing Contingencies 1st edition by Peter K. Manning (2003) Hardcover
- The sociology of mental health and illness (The Bobbs-Merrill studies in sociology)
- Semiotics and Fieldwork (Qualitative Research Methods) by Peter K. Manning (1987-06-01)
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Symbolic Communication: Signifying Calls and the Police Response (Organization Studies series)
Membership
Member American Society Criminology, American Sociological Association, Academy Criminal Justice Sciences, British Society Criminology, International Sociological Association, Midwest Sociological Society, Society Study Social Problems, Society Study Symbolic Interaction (special recognition award 1990, vice president 1992-1993, program chair 1993), International Society Semiotics and Law.
Connections
Married Victoria Francis Shaughnessy, September 1, 1961 (divorced 1981). Children– Kerry Patricia, Sean Peter, Merry Kathleen. Married Betsy Cullum-Swan, August 4, 1991 (divorced 1997).
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Recipient Bruce Smith Senior award Academy Criminal Justice Sciences, 1993, O.W. Wilson award, 1997, Charles H. Cooley award Michigan Sociological Association, 1994. National Defense Education Act fellow, 1962-1964, National Science Foundation fellow, 1965, fellow Balliol College, Oxford University, 1982-1983, visiting fellow Wolfson College, Oxford University, 1981, 82-83, fellow, 1984-1986. American Bar Foundation research fellow, 1998. Rockefeller resident, Bellagio, Italy, 2000.Recipient Bruce Smith Senior award Academy Criminal Justice Sciences, 1993, O.W. Wilson award, 1997, Charles H. Cooley award Michigan Sociological Association, 1994. National Defense Education Act fellow, 1962-1964, National Science Foundation fellow, 1965, fellow Balliol College, Oxford University, 1982-1983, visiting fellow Wolfson College, Oxford University, 1981, 82-83, fellow, 1984-1986. American Bar Foundation research fellow, 1998.
Rockefeller resident, Bellagio, Italy, 2000.