Peter K. Manning

Peter K. Manning holds the Elmer V. H. and Eileen M. 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, and was a Fellow of the National Institute of Justice, Balliol and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford, the American Bar Foundation, the Rockefeller Villa (Bellagio), and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford. Listed in Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World, he has been awarded many contracts and grants, the Bruce W. Smith and the O.W. Wilson Awards from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Charles Horton Cooley Award from the Michigan Sociological Association. The author and editor of some 15 books, including Privatization of Policing: Two Views (with Brian Forst) (Georgetown University Press, 2000), 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.

My 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