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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483854903321

Autore

de Lint Willem Bart

Titolo

Blurring intelligence crime : a critical forensics / / Willem Bart de Lint

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gateway East, Singapore : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

981-16-0352-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

364.131

Soggetti

Political crimes and offenses

Criminal law

White collar crimes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Blur and a Critical Forensics of Intelligence Crime -- Introduction -- The Uncertainty of Crime -- Critical Forensics: On Making Crime Certain -- From Political Crime to Intelligence Crime -- Apex: Political Crime as Spectacle -- A Critical Forensics of Intelligence Crime -- Working Hypothesis and Bias -- Outline of the Book -- References -- 2 Forensic Certainties -- Introduction -- Discipline (or Truth Claim) Dominion -- Equality of Arms -- Truth from Adversity -- The Institutional Setting and the Organisational Condition-Or Whose Event Is This? -- Crime Scene Recovery and Narrative Bias -- Establishing Investigatory Command Authority and Securing Crime Scene Control -- Exploiting the Crime Scene: Retrieving, Processing and Preserving Relevant Information, Materials or Evidence -- Preliminary Review of Materials and Working Hypotheses -- Measures of Identity and Review -- Errors and Bias -- Context Bias or Context Effects -- Confirmation Bias, Corroboration Inflation and Tunnel Vision -- Discussion and Implications for This Study -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Anti-forensics: Intelligence Crime and Blur -- Introduction -- Critical Institutional Review -- Justice or Rule of Law Legality -- Order and Ordering -- Sovereignty: Vitality and Deep Discretion -- A Criminology of Intelligence Crime -- Intelligence --



Intelligence Crime -- Apex Crime -- Confirmation Bias: Too Important to Be Uncertain -- Transaction and Blur -- Blur: Anti-forensics or Wrongdoing Erased -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 The Events of September 11, 2001: Apex Crime -- Introduction -- Event and Authority: 'We Have Some Planes' -- Claiming the Crime: Not just a Crime, but an Act of War -- Establishing Event Authority or Control -- Establishing the Crime Scene Dominion.

Following Prosecutorial Requirements -- Scene and Narrative -- Identifying, Collecting and Preserving Evidence -- Examining and Testing Evidence -- Identity and Review -- Summary Beyond Scope -- Discussion and Analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Intelligence Crime 1: Let's Not Be Too Hard on Ourselves -- Introduction -- From the Spectacular to the Quotidian: Routine Operations, Remarkable 'Mistakes' -- 'Oops, Won't Do It Again': Rainbow Warrior3 -- Analysis -- 'Hands Off Our Man' -- Analysis -- 'Belongs to Intelligence' -- Analysis -- Conclusion: Necropolitics on Offer? -- References -- 6 Intelligence Crime 2: 'Smear,' or Crimes Committed by 'Them' -- Introduction -- MH17 -- Event and Authorities: Joint Investigatory Team (JIT) Terms of Reference -- Scene and Narrative: Context Bias -- Bias in Evidence Collection -- Identities and Review -- Skripal, Douma and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) -- Event and Authority -- Scene and Crime -- Identities and Review -- OPCW Forensic Credibility: Chemical Weapons Attack, Douma, Syria -- Scene and Crime -- Identities and Review -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 The Intelligence Crime Blur: Shaping Opinion, Smudging Records and Spiking Policy -- Introduction -- Shaping Liberal Democratic Opinion -- Smudging the Record: Pre-Emptive Counter-Forensics -- Analysis -- Bridging Across Partisan Divisions by Spiking (Foreign) Policy -- Analysis: New Normal Security and Deep Split Politics -- Politicising the Review of Political Crime -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 Conclusion -- Introduction -- Security Intelligence and Intelligence Crime2 -- Crimes Too Big to Prosecute and Political Retrenchment -- A Conspiratorial Re-View: Radical Scepticism and Critical Forensics6 -- A-D, Establishment View of Anti-Establishment Conspiracy.

B-C, Anti-Establishment View of Establishment Conspiracy -- B-D, Guilt by Association: David Icke -- Summary -- Simulation, Meta-Rhetoric: It Is Control, Not Justice, Which 'Must Be Seen to Be Done' -- Disorder, Knowledge and Political Direction -- Conclusion -- References.