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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456106203321

Autore

Marx Gary T

Titolo

Undercover [[electronic resource] ] : police surveillance in America / / Gary T. Marx

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1988

ISBN

1-282-35567-8

9786612355677

0-520-91004-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Disciplina

363.2/32

Soggetti

Undercover operations - United States

Criminal investigation - United States

Police patrol - Surveillance operations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Twentieth Century Fund book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-272) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Providing a rich picture of past and present undercover work, and drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with the FBI and local police, this penetrating study examines the variety of undercover operations and the ethical issues and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