Undercover : police surveillance in America

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Undercover : police surveillance in America

Gary T. Marx

University of California Press, c1988

  • : pbk

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"A Twentieth Century Fund book."

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Volume

ISBN 9780520062863

Description

Providing a rich picture of past and present undercover work, and drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with the FBI and local police, this penetrating study examines the variety of undercover operations and the ethical issues and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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: pbk ISBN 9780520069695

Description

Providing a rich picture of past and present undercover work, and drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with the FBI and local police, this penetrating study examines the variety of undercover operations and the ethical issues and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

Table of 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

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