Journal article
Police informers and professional ethics
Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol.31(2), pp.73-95
2012
Abstract
The use of informers is morally problematic for police institutions, for investigation managers, and for those individuals either who act as informers or who have daily responsibility for handling informers. This paper examines the moral issues concerning informers at each of these levels. Recourse to informers can be accommodated within Miller and Blackler's moral theory of policing. Within this context, criteria for the morally justifiable deployment of informers are proposed and supplemented with further proposed criteria for morally justifiable informer participation in crime. Morally justifiable recruitment of informers is also considered. Despite directly serving the purpose of policing, informers do not incur police professional obligations.
Details
- Title
- Police informers and professional ethics
- Authors
- Clive Harfield (Author) - University of Wollongong
- Publication details
- Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol.31(2), pp.73-95
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2012
- DOI
- 10.1080/0731129X.2012.696960
- ISSN
- 0731-129X; 0731-129X
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2012 Routledge. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Criminal Justice Ethics on 2012, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0731129X.2012.696960
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451387602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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