Cops, Teachers, Counselors by Steven Williams Maynard-Moody

Cops, Teachers, Counselors by Steven Williams Maynard-Moody

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A penetrating look at how government workers make sense of their work, ascribe identity to the people they encounter, and account for their decisions and actions

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Cops, Teachers, Counselors by Steven Williams Maynard-Moody

Whether on a patrol beat, in social service offices, or in public school classrooms, street-level workers continually confront rules in relation to their own beliefs about the people they encounter. Cops, Teachers, Counselors is the first major study of street-level bureaucracy to rely on storytelling. Steven Maynard-Moody and Michael Musheno collect the stories told by these workers in order to analyze the ways that they ascribe identities to the people they encounter and use these identities to account for their own decisions and actions. The authors show us how the world of street-level work is defined by the competing tensions of law abidance and cultural abidance in a unique study that finally allows cops, teachers, and counselors to voice their own views of their work. Steven Maynard-Moody is Director of the Policy Research Institute and Professor of Public Administration at the University of Kansas. Michael Musheno is Professor of Justice and Policy Studies at Lycoming College and Professor Emeritus of Justice Studies, Arizona State University.

Steven Maynard-Moody is Director of the Policy Research Institute and Professor of Public Administration at the University of Kansas.

Michael Musheno is Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Oregon and Professor Emeritus of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University.

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ISBN 13 9780472068326
ISBN 10 0472068326
Title Cops, Teachers, Counselors
Author Steven Williams Maynard-Moody
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The University of Michigan Press
Year published 2003-05-31
Number of pages 216
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