Symbolic Communication Signifying Calls and the Police Response

Name: Symbolic Communication Signifying Calls and the Police Response
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ISBN: 9780262132343

ISBN-10: 0262132346

ISBN-13: 9780262132343

Edition: 1988

Authors: Peter K. Manning

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This first major empirical work on the semiotics of social action goes a long way toward answering substantive, theoretical and pragmatic questions on how codes actually operate in a specific social setting. It underscores the important yet often ignored role of the police as "sign" or "information workers." Calls to the police represent a rich variety of human troubles, concerns, and needs by focusing on how police handle calls from the public, how they ascertain what a call means and what should be done with it, and how this is transformed through subsystems within the organization, Peter Manning provides a novel way of looking at organizational communication. Symbolic Communication…

Book details

List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/6/1989
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 327
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Peter K. Manning (Ph.D., Duke, 1966) is the Brooks Professor of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University-Boston. He recently published Policing Technology: An Ethnographic Study of Crime Mapping (NYU Press 2007).