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Providing a rich picture of past and present undercover work, and drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with the FBI and local police, this penetrating study examines the variety of undercover operations and the ethical issues and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.
Price: $31.95
Pages: 280
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
05 December 1989
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520069695
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
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
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