|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910817580903321 |
|
|
Autore |
Marx Gary T |
|
|
Titolo |
Undercover : police surveillance in America / / Gary T. Marx |
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 1988 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-282-35567-8 |
9786612355677 |
0-520-91004-4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (312 pages) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Undercover operations - United States |
Criminal investigation - United States |
Police patrol - Surveillance operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Providing a rich picture of past and present undercover work, and drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with the FBI and local police, this penetrating study examines the variety of undercover operations and the ethical issues and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. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|