Informers

Policing, policy, practice
Herausgeber: Billingsley, Roger; Bean, Philip; Nemitz, Teresa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book of its kind on informers in Britain, addressing a series of key questions about informers and the informer system. As such, it is essential reading for professionals, academics and students with an interest in informers and the broader issues surrounding their use.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781903240076
• ISBN-10: 1903240077
• Artikelnr.: 25002960

Autorenporträt

Roger Billingsley is head of the Covert Policing Standards Unit at New Scotland Yard. Teresa Nemitz lectures at the Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, Loughborough University. Philip Bean is Emeritus Professor of Criminology and formerly Director of the Midland Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at Loughborough.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Preface 1. Introduction 2. Drugs, Crime and Informers 3. Law
Enforcement Ethics: is principled informant handling possible? 4.
Informers, Agents and Accountability: the use of human information sources
by the Police and the Security Service 5. Informer careers: motivation and
change 6. Gender issues of Informer Handling 7. Juvenile informers 8. Where
the Grass is Greener? Supergrasses in comparative perspective 9. Managing
Anonymous Informants through Crimestoppers 10. Witness Protection Schemes
11. Regulating informers: RIP A, covert policing and human rights