Invisible Policing - Inside the World of Covert Surveillance

This book presents the first ethnographic account of the inner-world of covert policing, sheds new light on a largely hidden and poorly understood form of investigation and offers a major contrubution to research on police culture and practice.

List of contents

Prologue, 1. Situating Covert Policing, 2. The Regulation of Covert Policing, 3. Watching the Watchers, 4. Under Surveillance, 5. An Erudite Occupational Culture, 6. Normalising the Exceptional, 7. Grim RIPA?, Conclusions

Summary

This book presents the first ethnographic account of the inner-world of covert policing, sheds new light on a largely hidden and poorly understood form of investigation and offers a major contrubution to research on police culture and practice.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Goold, Benjamin (University of British Columbia Goold, Bethan Loftus, Bethan (University of Manchester Loftus, Bethan Goold Loftus, Loftus Bethan, Shane (University of Oxford Mac Giollabhui, Shane Mac Giollabhuí
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.11.2018, delayed
• EAN: 9781138934894
• ISBN: 978-1-138-93489-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice; Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Legal aspects of criminology, Society and culture: general, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminal justice law, Police law & police procedures, Police law and police procedures