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Undercover: police surveillance in America
Abstract
Providing a rich picture of past and present undercover work, and drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with the FBI and local police, this penetrating study examines the variety of undercover operations and the ethical issues and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.
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Metadata
- Venue
- Choice Reviews Online
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 1988-12-01
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 04
- Pages
- 26-2186-26-2186
- ISSN
- 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-8253
- OpenAlex
- W1586403850
- Cited by
- 525
- References
- 0
- Type
- book review
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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