Peter K. Manning (born September 27, 1940) is an American sociologist who is an author and speaker on the topic of policing organizations.

Peter Kirby Manning
Born (1940-09-27) September 27, 1940 (age 83)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materDuke University
Willamette University
Grant High School
Known forPolicing
Qualitative Methods
Semiotics
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
Criminology
InstitutionsGarfinkel Archive
Northeastern University
Oxford University
University of Surrey
University of London
Michigan State University
Missouri University (Columbia)
Duke University
Notable studentsMichael W. Raphael
Benjamin B. Davis

Background edit

Peter K. Manning was born in Salem, Oregon 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 in 1963 and 1966 respectively.

Career edit

Peter K. Manning is a Senior Fellow at The Garfinkel Archive.[1] He previously held the Brooks Chair in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. He has taught at Michigan State, MIT, Oxford, and the University of Michigan.[2] "His research interests includes the rationalizing and interplay of private and public policing, democratic policing, crime mapping and crime analysis, uses of information technology, and qualitative methods."[3]

Manning's works edit

  • 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
  • Manning, Peter K. (2010). Democratic Policing in a Changing World. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers. ISBN 978-1-59451-546-0.

Listed in edit

  • 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 edit

  1. ^ "Peter Manning". Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Faculty: Peter Manning". www.northeastern.edu. Northeastern University: College of Social Sciences and Humaities. 2014. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  3. ^ "Faculty and Staff: Peter K. Manning". www.cj.neu.edu. 2008. Archived from the original on March 6, 2009. Retrieved March 29, 2018.

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