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Invisible Policing: Inside the world of covert surveillance
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.
Author(s) | By Bethan Loftus, Benjamin Goold, Shane Mac Giollabhui. |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 224 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 31 Dec 2023 |
Availability | Not yet available |
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.
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