Regulating Undercover Law Enforcement: The Australian Experience

Brendon Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Law at the Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University. He has previously been appointed as Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, and Associate Professor at the University of Canberra. As an academic, his doctoral research examined the regulation of covert investigation in Australia, with emphasis on the legal, policy and theoretical aspects of controlled operations. His PhD was given honourable mention by the Royal Society of New South Wales as an outstanding thesis in 2016. He has published widely in the field of criminal law and procedure, law and society, and legal theory. He was contributing author to National Security, Surveillance and Terror in Palgrave MacMillan’s Crime Prevention and Security Management Series, and Criminal Law Perspectives published by Cambridge University Press. He is the current serving academic member of the New South Wales Law Society’s Specialist Accreditation Board for Criminal Law.

• Part 1. COVERT INVESTIGATION LAW AND PRACTICE.- Chapter 1. Operation Decade.- Chapter 2. Controlled Operations.- Chapter 3.- Theory and Practice of Undercover Investigations.- Chapter 4. Context and Developments in Covert Investigations Regulation.- Chapter 5. Problems in Covert Investigations.- Part II. DISCOURSES IN PUBLIC POLICY.- Chapter 6. Risk, Threat and Necropolitics.- Chapter 7. The Rise of Risk in Australian Federal Legislation.- Chapter 8. Legal Risk.- Chapter 9. Discourses of Accountability.- Part III. THEORY AND BEYOND.- Chapter 10.- Beyond the Boundaries of Risk.- Chapter 11. Governmentality.- Chapter 12. The Shadow of Homo Civicus.- Chapter 13. Reconfiguring Sovereign Power.