Policing: A View from the Street

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Emphasizing the active nature of law enforcement even to its title, Policing assembles eighteen articles from the top ethnographers in the field to develop a perspective on policing based not on administrative or legalistic theories, but on firsthand, sociological data—a view from the street. Policing opens with a section on the role and mandate of the police; moves to the context of policing in America, including studies of patrol, detective, and administrative policing; to strategies of policing, including the hitherto unpublished "Invitational Edges of Corruption: Some Consequences of Narcotic Law Enforcement," by Peter K. Manning and Lawrence J. Redlinger; to the practice of policing, including—the first appearance of John Van Maanen's "The Asshole"; to a final section on socializing for policing, with an Epilogue on the socialization of on researcher (John Van Maanen's "On Watching the Watchers"). An Appendix lists selected field studies of police—works publihed and in progress. Acknowledgments About the Authors Contents Preface PART ONE: BACKGROUND TO POLICING Introduction The Police: Mandate, Strategies, and Appearances • Peter K. Manning The Functions of The Police in Modern Society • Egon Bittner PART TWO: CONTEXT OF POLICING Introduction Dilemmas of Police Administration • James Q. Wilson Rules, Colleagues, and Situationally Justified Actions • Peter K. Manning Control Systems, Social Bases of Power and Power Exercise in Police Organizations • Larry L. Tifft Police Task and Time Study • John A. Webster Kinsmen in Repose: Occupational Perspectives of Patrolmen • John Van Maanen Private Information • Jonathan Rubenstein PART THREE: STRATEGIES OF POLICING Introduction Invitational Edges of Corruption: Some Consequences of Narcotic Law Enforcement • Peter K. Manning and Lawrence J. Redlinger The Mobilization of Law • Donald J. Black Notes on Police Assessment of Moral Character • Harvey Sacks The Police and Crime • James Q. Wilson PART FOUR: PRACTICE OF POLICING Introduction The Asshole 221John Van Maanen Lying, Secrecy, and Social Control • Peter K. Manning Controlling People • Jonathan Rubenstein PART FIVE: SOCIALIZATION FOR POLICING Introduction The Police Academy and the Professional Self-Image • Richard N. Harris Observations on the Making of Policemen • John Van Maanen EPILOGUE On Watching the Watchers • John Van Maanen APPENDIX Selected Research Studies of Police: Published Works, Dissertations, Theses, and Works in Progress References for Section Introductions