Undercover : Police Surveillance in America.

By:

Marx, Gary T

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1988.Description: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520910041
0520910044
1282355678
9781282355675
9786612355677
6612355670

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Undercover : Police Surveillance in America.DDC classification:

363.2/32 363.232

LOC classification:

HV8080.U5 M37 1988

Online resources:

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. The Changing Nature of Undercover Work; 2. A Selective History of Undercover Practices; 3. The Current Context; 4. Types and Dimensions; 5. The Complexity of Virtue; 6. Intended Consequences of Undercover Work; 7. Unintended Consequences: Targets, Third Parties, and Informers; 8. Unintended Consequences: Police; 9. Controlling Undercover Operations; 10. The New Surveillance; Notes to Chapters 1-10; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

Summary: Providing a rich picture of past and present undercover work, and drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with the FBI and local police, this penetrating study examines the variety of undercover operations and the ethical issues and empirical assumptions raised when the state officially sanctions deception and trickery and allows its agents to participate in crime.

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Providing a rich picture of past and present undercover work, and drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with the FBI and local police, this penetrating study examines the variety of undercover operations and the ethical issues and empirical assumptions raised when the state officially sanctions deception and trickery and allows its agents to participate in crime.