Roger (Hrsg.) Billingsley

Informers

Policing, policy, practice

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The police rely heavily on paid and unpaid informers: without them clear-up rates would plummet, and many crimes would remain undetected. Yet little is known about the informer system and how it works, for example: who are these informers? how are they recruited? how are they handled? who handles them? what sort of information do they provide? Recent high profile cases have drawn attention to the use of informers, there has been a growing debate about the subject, and many feel that stricter controls are needed - but how is this to be achieved without undermining the effectiveness of the system? This is the first book of its kind on informers… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Nemitz, Teresa (Hrsg.) / Bean, Philip (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-134-03255-6
EAN: 9781134032556
Produktnummer: 17040362
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 4'257 KB

Über den Autor

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.