POLICE - MANDATE, STRATEGIES, AND APPEARANCES (FROM CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN AMERICA - A CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING, 1974 BY RICHARD QUINNEY - SEE NCJ-42275)

• NCJ Number: 42276
• Author(s): P K MANNING
• Date Published: 1974
• Length: 31 pages
• Corporate Author: Little, Brown and Co
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

THIS CHAPTER ATTEMPTS TO OUTLINE THE NATURE OF THE POLICE MANDATE, OR THEIR DEFINITION OF SOCIAL TROUBLE, THEIR METHODS OF COPING WITH THIS TROUBLE, AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR EFFORTS IN THIS REGARD.

Abstract

AFTER DEVELOPING A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PARADOXES OF POLICE WORK AND DISCUSSING THE HEROIC ATTEMPTS (STRATEGIES) BY POLICE TO UNTANGLE THESE PARADOXES, THE ARTICLE ALSO CONSIDERS THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT'S CRIME COMMISSION AND ASSESSES THEIR VALUE AS A MEANS OF ALTERING AND IMPROVING THE PRACTICAL ART OF MANAGING PUBLIC ORDER. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT)...MSP