Conference proceedings
The Social Implications of Covert Policing
Workshop on the Social Implications of National Security: The Social Implications of Covert Policing, 4th (Canberra, Australia, 07-Apr-2009)
2010
Abstract
This report contains papers presented at the Fourth Workshop on the Social Implications of National Security, Canberra, Australia, April 2009. The workshop included a wide range of topics that addressed the application and social implications of the use of covert surveillance techniques in policing. Participants for the workshop were drawn from a range of professions and disciplines including policing and intelligence studies; criminology and criminal justice; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT); law, ethics, human rights and public policy.
The 17 papers included in this document are divided into 3 sections. Part 1: Regulating Cover Policing Methods has three papers that address Regulating Covert Policing Methods: from Reactive to Proactive Models of Admissibility; Law Enforcement Agency Use of Covert Powers - Oversight by the Commonwealth Ombudsman; and Shifting the Paradigm: Rethinking the Public/Private Continuum in Covert Private Policing. Part 2: Sociotechnical Systems and National Security has seven papers that address National Security, Privacy, Ethics, and the Evaluation of Sociotechnical Systems; Identity & Biometrics in Cooperative Policing; The Covert Implementation of Mass Vehicle Surveillance in Australia; Covert Policing using Unobtrusive Global Positioning Systems Trackers: A Demonstration; For What it's Worth: Cost Benefit Analysis of the use of Interception and Access in Australia; Avoiding a Privacy-Security Telecommunications Deadlock Under Emergency Declarations; and Demonstrating the Potential for Covert Policing in the Community: Five Stakeholder Scenarios. PART 3: Aspects of Human Rights and Policing has six papers that address E-policing and the social contract; The Practical Effects of the Human Rights Act 1998 on Policing in England and Wales; The European Court of Human Rights Ruling against the Policy of Keeping Fingerprints and DNA Samples of Criminal Suspects in Britain, Wales and Northern Island: The Case of S. and Marper v United Kingdom; An Interview with Mr. Peter Mahy2 who represented S and Marper at the European Court of Human Rights; Intelligence, ethics and the creation of certainty from uncertainty; and Counter Terrorism and Access to Justice: Public Policy Divided?
Details
- Title
- The Social Implications of Covert Policing
- Authors
- Simon Bronitt (Editor) - Griffith UniversityClive Harfield (Editor) - University of WollongongKatina Michael (Editor) - University of Wollongong
- Publication details
- 193
- Conference details
- Workshop on the Social Implications of National Security: The Social Implications of Covert Policing, 4th (Canberra, Australia, 07-Apr-2009)
- Publisher
- University of Wollongong Press
- Date published
- 2010
- ISBN
- 9781741281934; 9781741281941
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99513851202621
- Output Type
- Conference proceedings
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