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Invading the Private - State accountability and new investigative methods in Europe (Hardcover)
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Invading the Private - State accountability and new investigative methods in Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1998, this volume seeks to examine a range of
policing techniques which are new, if not in their conception, then
at least in their importance to the form of police enquiries in the
late 20th century. Some of them are beginning to be discussed under
categories of 'proactive' or 'covert' policing: others are termed
'technological' because they depend intimately on the development
of the new information technologies. In much of Western Europe and
North America the nature of police investigative methods is being
transformed. At the centre of these developments are three main
trends. First, there is the increasing use of covert
intelligence-gathering techniques such as participating informers,
police undercover operations and surveillance proactively targeted
at 'suspicious' individuals or networks. Secondly, there is the
development of increasingly sophisticated information gathering and
processing technologies (DNA) and fingerprint data bases, general
intelligence storage systems, computer analysis of open source
data, the Internet). Lastly there is an extending exploitation of
powers to compel private individuals and companies to provide the
state with information about themselves and third parties
(including the use of information originally supplied to the state
for purposes other than criminal investigation). This book argues
that in different ways these trends represent a new invasion of the
private sphere by investigative methods and a new challenge for
traditional mechanisms for rendering the state's policing
accountable such as the trial, the judge and the defence lawyer.
Bringing together contributions from sociologists and lawyers in
Western Europe and North America, it surveys these developments,
considers the regulatory options for their control and their
implications for legal principles of privacy and due process.
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