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Speaking Truth to Power: Confidential Informants and Police Investigations
Dean A. Dabney
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Description for Speaking Truth to Power: Confidential Informants and Police Investigations
Paperback. Despite the central role of informants in contemporary police operations, little is known about the shadowy relationships among law enforcement, snitches, and offenders. Based on fieldwork in two major metropolitan police departments, this book takes you to the front lines of the war on drugs to unravel this complex web of information exchange. Num Pages: 232 pages, 3 Charts. BIC Classification: JKVF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Domestic drug enforcement takes many forms, from the rural patrol officer who happens upon a small-scale mobile shake and bake methamphetamine lab during a routine traffic stop, to the city narcotics detective who initiates a low-level buy-bust operation that nets a few hits of crack cocaine on the street corner, to the local, state, and federal agents working in multiagency task forces that coordinate a sting operation that nets thousands of kilos of near-pure cocaine being transported by tractor-trailer. Regardless of the form, there is a high probability that these authorities have exploited access to known offenders and ... Read more
Domestic drug enforcement takes many forms, from the rural patrol officer who happens upon a small-scale mobile shake and bake methamphetamine lab during a routine traffic stop, to the city narcotics detective who initiates a low-level buy-bust operation that nets a few hits of crack cocaine on the street corner, to the local, state, and federal agents working in multiagency task forces that coordinate a sting operation that nets thousands of kilos of near-pure cocaine being transported by tractor-trailer. Regardless of the form, there is a high probability that these authorities have exploited access to known offenders and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520290488
SKU
V9780520290488
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About Dean A. Dabney
Dean A. Dabney is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University. Richard Tewksbury is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Louisville.
Reviews for Speaking Truth to Power: Confidential Informants and Police Investigations
An excellent work that earns its rightful place alongside other scholarly CI literature... well-written and extends the theoretical literature on CIs.
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