Providing a rich picture of past and present undercover work, and drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with the FBI and local police, this penetrating study examines the variety of undercover operations and the ethical issues and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.
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.
Innehållsförteckning
List of TablesForewordAcknowledgmentsPreface1. The Changing Nature of Undercover Work2. A Selective History of Undercover Practices3. The Current Context4. Types and Dimensions5. The Complexity of Virtue6. Intended Consequences of Undercover Work7. Unintended Consequences: Targets, ThirdParties, and Informers8. Unintended Consequences: Police9. Controlling Undercover Operations10. The New SurveillanceNotes to Chapters 1-10Index
