Peter K. Manning (born September 27, 1940) is an American
sociologist who is an author and speaker on the topic of policing organizations.
Background
Peter K. Manning was born in
Salem, Oregon
Salem ( ) is the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County, Oregon, Marion County. It is located in the center of the Willamette Valley alongside the Willamette River, which runs north through the city. The river ...
on September 27, 1940. He graduated from
Willamette University in 1961. Manning went on to earn his
M.A. and
Ph.D in
Sociology from
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
in 1963 and 1966 respectively.
Career
Peter K. Manning is a Senior Fellow at The Garfinkel Archive. He previously held the Brooks Chair in the College of
Criminal Justice at
Northeastern University
Northeastern University (NU) is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Boston. Established in 1898, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs on its main campus as well as satellite campuses in ...
,
Boston, MA. He has taught at
Michigan State
Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the first of its kind in the United States. It i ...
,
MIT,
Oxford, and the
University of Michigan. "His research interests includes the rationalizing and interplay of private and public policing,
democratic policing,
crime mapping
Crime mapping is used by analysts in law enforcement agencies to map, visualize, and analyze crime incident patterns. It is a key component of crime analysis and the CompStat policing strategy. Mapping crime, using Geographic Information Systems ...
and
crime analysis, uses of
information technology, and
qualitative methods
Qualitative research is a type of research that aims to gather and analyse non-numerical (descriptive) data in order to gain an understanding of individuals' social reality, including understanding their attitudes, beliefs, and motivation. This ...
."
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Manning's works
* Youth and Sociology
* Youth: Divergent Perspectives
* The Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
* Police Work: The Social Organization of Policing
* Policing: A View from the Street
* Police Narcotics Control: Patterns and Strategies
* The Narcs' Game: Organizational and Informational Limits on Drug Law Enforcement
* Handbook of Social Science Methods, Volume II, Qualitative Methods
* Semiotics and Fieldwork
* Symbolic Communication: Signifying Calls and the Police Response
* Organizational Communication
* The Privatization of Policing: Two Views
* Policing Contingencies
* The Technology of Policing: Crime Mapping, Information Technology and the Rationality of Crime Control
* Democratic Policing in a Changing World with
Michael W. Raphael
*
Listed in
* American Men and Women of Science and Behavioral Sciences, Jacques Cattell Press: Tucson, Arizona, from 1970 edition.
* Contemporary Authors, Gale Research, Detroit, Michigan, from 1977 edition
References
External links
DissertationAmazon Author ProfileGoogle Scholar ProfileAcademia.edu Profile
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Living people
1940 births
Willamette University alumni
Duke University alumni
Writers from Portland, Oregon
Northeastern University faculty
Michigan State University faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
University of Michigan faculty
American expatriates in the United Kingdom