Undercover : Police Surveillance in America

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Providing a rich picture of past and present undercover work, and drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with the FBI and local police, this penetrating study examines the variety of undercover operations and the ethical issues and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 sanc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marx, Gary T.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1988.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Undercover operations.
Police patrol > Surveillance operations.
Criminal investigation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Law Enforcement.
Surveillance policiere.
Enquêtes criminelles > États-Unis.
Operations secretes > États-Unis.
Criminal investigation > United States.
Undercover operations > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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