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Policing contingencies

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 off.

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  • ""La tarea policial como obra de teatro y la administración como perspectiva de incertidumbre son un medio poderoso para articular cómo se mantiene y comunica la ilusión del control formal en las sociedades postindustriales. En lugar de detallar las cuestiones empíricas más bien banales que han impulsado la criminología y la investigación en justicia penal durante los últimos veinte años, se busca aquí teorizar el mantenimiento del orden como una actuación teatral. Esto no significa afirmar que el único propósito de la vigilancia policial sea el desempeño y la comunicación, que la policía sea experta en la creación y manipulación de la opinión pública o incluso, de hecho, que sea efectiva en los esfuerzos por publicitarse a sí misma. Los hechos no sostienen esas imputaciones ..." --Descripción del editor."@es
  • "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 off."@en

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  • "Contingencias policiales"
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  • "Policing contingencies"
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