Undercover

Police Surveillance in America
1. Auflage 1989
ISBN: 978-0-520-06969-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 143 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Providing a rich picture of past and present undercover work, and drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with the FBI and local police, this penetrating study examines the variety of undercover operations and the ethical issues and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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marx, Gary T.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Polizeitechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Gary T. Marx is Professor of Sociology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of numerous books and articles on social control, mass behavior and race relations.