Subterranean blues: Conflict as an unintended consequence of the police use of informers

Policing and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 385-412

  Norris, Clive ^a   Dunnighan, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conflict; Detectives; Ethics; Informants; Police deviance; Pro active policing; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937327944     PISSN: 10439463     EISSN: 14772728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2000.9964824     Document Type: Article

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