TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Sociologist Dr. Peter K. Manning will speak about his fieldwork with the Northern Ireland Police Services at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in 214 Farrah Hall, through The University of Alabama’s criminal justice department.
His talk will discuss recent changes in the Northern Ireland police force after the 1998 Good Friday peace accords, as well as difficulties in collecting qualitative data on the constabulary.
Manning holds the Elmer V. H. and Eileen M. Brooks chair in the College of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Northeastern University in Boston. He has taught at Michigan State, MIT, Oxford, the University at Albany and the University of Michigan. He also was a fellow of the National Institute of Justice.
He has been awarded 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.
Manning has written 19 books, including the 2010 “Democratic Policing in a Changing World.” His research interests include democratic policing, uses of information technology and qualitative methods. His current research is focused on information technologies in policing and the transformation of policing in Ireland.
UA’s criminal justice department is part of UA’s College of Arts and Sciences, the University’s largest division and the largest liberal arts college in the state. Students from the College have won numerous national awards including Rhodes Scholarships, Goldwater Scholarships and memberships in the USA Today Academic All American Team.
Contact
Richard LeComte, media relations, rllecomte@ur.ua.edu, 205/348-3782; Dr. Mark Murfee Lanier, 205/348-6846,mmlanier@bama.ua.edu