Providing a rich picture of past and present undercover work, and drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with the FBI and local police, this penetrating study examines the variety of undercover operations and the ethical issues and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.
Auflage
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-520-06969-5 (9780520069695)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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.
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
