Spycops : secrets and disclosure in the undercover policing inquiry /
In the first academic analysis of the 'spycops' scandal, the author draws on extensive fieldwork and his first-hand experience of police infiltration in this exploration of covert policing practices.
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press, an imprint of Bristol University Press,
2024.
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| 在线阅读: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.9692622 |
书本目录:
- Front Cover
- Spycops: Secrets and Disclosure in the Undercover Policing Inquiry
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- List of abbreviations
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 An (un)acknowledged truth
- The politics of public inquiries
- Inquiring into police secrets
- Background to the research
- The Terms of Reference
- Preliminary matters
- The core participants
- Methods
- Structure of the book
- 2 The undercover policing scandal
- Unravelling threads of deception
- The making of a scandal
- The greatest possible scrutiny?
- The Home Secretary's announcement
- Officer A: the whistleblower
- The personal is political
- The Tradecraft Manual
- Institutional sexism
- Policing by deception
- 3 Deviant knowledge and activist research
- Covert policing and academic knowledge
- Deviant knowledge
- Political policing targeting the Left
- The Special Demonstration Squad
- The National Public Order Intelligence Unit
- Public order policing and political protest
- Critical studies in counter-terrorism
- Criminological knowledge from below
- 4 The public inquiry as a site of struggle
- "We are not prepared to confirm or deny"
- Political accountability in public inquiries
- The limits of Neither Confirm Nor Deny
- Disclosure failures in a major protest trial
- The Inquiry's legal approach to restriction orders
- The mosaic effect
- The Scappaticci problem
- The Princess Diana exception
- Contesting Neither Confirm Nor Deny
- A brick wall of silence
- 5 Dirty data and devices of dis/closure
- Secrecy, security, disclosure
- From secrecy to dis/closure
- Devices of political mediation
- Devices for appeals to morality
- Devices for technical data management
- Dirty and hidden data
- Academic access to the evidence
- The problem of self-incrimination
- Obstruction and obfuscation
- "Give us our files!"
- 6 Human rights and data protection
- The spy's right to privacy
- Human rights, a different kind of paradox
- Protecting the anonymity of police officers
- Contesting the risk assessments
- Anonymity in numbers
- Anonymity, risk and harm
- The Inquiry's reach abroad
- Posthumous rights
- Privacy and data protection
- A 'weapon of last resort'
- From human rights to political expression
- 7 In and against the Undercover Policing Inquiry
- Fighting for transparency
- Challenging the Terms of Reference
- Withdrawing from participation
- 'Paid to lie'
- Broadcasting the hearings
- Human rights claims in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal
- Protest in a democratic society
- 8 Public inquiries at a crossroads
- Limits to accountability
- Public inquiries in the conservative state
- Can a public inquiry bring accountability?
- Appendix A: Terms of Reference
- Purpose
- Miscarriages of justice
- Scope
- Method
- Report
- Appendix B: Timeline
- 14 March 2010
- 21 October 2010
- 10 January 2011
- 15 October 2011