Invisible Policing

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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.

Contenu

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