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Neither confirm nor deny : secrecy and disclosure in undercover policing
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Hadjimatheou, Katerina (2017) Neither confirm nor deny : secrecy and disclosure in undercover policing. Criminal Justice Ethics, 36 (3). pp. 279-296. doi:10.1080/0731129X.2018.1424756 ISSN 0731-129X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/0731129X.2018.1424756
Abstract
Recent scandals in UK undercover policing have prompted a public re-examination of the basis for continued secrecy with respect to cases in which serious historical misconduct is suspected. As part of its approach to balancing the competing demands of secrecy and accountability, the current legal process requires the police to provide case-by-case risk assessments of the harm to policing threatened by disclosure. This paper considers the role of risk assessments in this process. It critically examines two arguments put forward by police in support of their claim that such assessments will nearly always support a refusal to disclose and thus a ‘neither confirm nor deny’ response to requests for information about undercover policing. It argues that these arguments apply in fewer cases and/or less conclusively than police routinely suppose, and that their obligation to provide detailed case-by-case risk assessments therefore cannot be thereby evaded.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Undercover operations -- Moral and ethical aspects, Official secrets, Disclosure of information, Criminal investigation | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Criminal Justice Ethics | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0731-129X | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2 September 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 36 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 279-296 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/0731129X.2018.1424756 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 January 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 2 March 2019 | ||||||||
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