The Police Mandate

Organizational analysis

Peter Manning author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Publishing:5th Jan '26

£115.00

This title is due to be published on 5th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

The Police Mandate cover

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.

"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

ISBN: 9780415657327

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

272 pages