Description
Book SynopsisInvestigative Ethics: Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal Investigators presents applied philosophical analyses of the ethical issues that arise for police detectives and other investigators in contemporary society.
- Explores ethical issues relating to investigative independence, rights of victims and suspects, use of informants, entrapment, privacy and surveillance, undercover operations, deception, and suspect interviewing
- Represents the first monograph providing a detailed consideration of ethical issues in police investigations
- Features authorship by an applied philosopher specializing in police ethics, and a former UK senior police officer
- Combined authorship ensures the text is anchored in actual police practice as well as providing high quality ethical analysis
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viii
Introduction: Ethics and the Role of the Investigator 1
1 Law, Morality, and Policing 17
2 Knowledge, Evidence, and the Aims of Investigation 48
3 Intelligence and Intelligence Gathering 80
4 Investigative Independence 99
5 Crimes against the Person 118
6 Property Crime 149
7 Terrorism 171
8 Police Corruption 201
9 Informants and Internal Witnesses 223
10 Surveillance and Monitoring 243
11 Undercover Operations and Entrapment 263
12 Interviewing 279
References 297
Index 308
