Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789004633452
Series Statement:
Human Rights and Humanitarian Law - Book Archive pre-2000
Content:
The United States and Europe have recently experienced a significant expansion in the use of undercover police tactics and technological means of surveillance. In a democratic society, such tactics raise significant questions for public policy and social research. New and sophisticated forms of crime and social control (and their internationalization) represent an important and neglected topic. Realizing this, the leading scholars in this field created a European and American working group for the comparative study of police surveillance. This collaborative, landmark volume reports the results of their work. It is the first book ever devoted to the comparative study of the topic and includes articles on the historical development of covert policing in Europe and its spread to the United States (where it was extended and recently exported back to Europe), plus detailed accounts of the use of covert tactics in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Sweden, Canada and the United States. Audience: Social scientists, historians, policy makers, lawyers, and criminal justice practitioners
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789041100153
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Undercover Police Surveillance in Comparative Perspective Leiden : Brill | Nijhoff, 1995 ISBN 9789041100153
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004633452
