Featured Speakers
"The Drama
of Policing: Modern Modes of Media Amplification "
Peter Manning, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Northeastern University
Peter K. Manning (Ph.D. Duke, 1966, MA Oxon.1982) holds the
Elmer V. H. and Eileen M. Brooks Chair in the School of Criminology and
Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. He has taught
at Michigan State,
MIT, Oxford, the University at
Albany
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 21 books and numerous articles and chapters, his research
interests include democratic policing, uses of information technology,
and qualitative methods. Two recent books are The Technology of
Policing: (2008 NYU Press) and Democratic Policing in a Changing
World (Paradigm, 2010). His
current research is focused on information technologies in policing and
the transformation of the policing of Ireland following the publication
of the Patten report (1999).
