Undercover : police surveillance in America / / Gary T. Marx
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| Autore: |
Marx Gary T
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| Titolo: |
Undercover : police surveillance in America / / Gary T. Marx
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 1988 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (312 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 363.2/32 |
| Soggetto topico: | Undercover operations - United States |
| Criminal investigation - United States | |
| Police patrol - Surveillance operations | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | academic |
| american history | |
| crime | |
| criminal justice | |
| criminal | |
| detective work | |
| ethical issues | |
| ethics | |
| fbi | |
| fieldwork | |
| issues in policing | |
| justice system | |
| local police | |
| morals | |
| police brutality | |
| police department | |
| police ethics | |
| police tactics | |
| police work | |
| research | |
| scholarly | |
| undercover cop | |
| undercover detective | |
| undercover investigation | |
| undercover police | |
| undercover | |
| 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| Sommario/riassunto: | Providing a rich picture of past and present undercover work, and drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with the FBI and local police, this penetrating study examines the variety of undercover operations and the ethical issues and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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Undercover |
| ISBN: | 1-282-35567-8 |
| 9786612355677 | |
| 0-520-91004-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780432303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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