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Nathan, Christopher (2017) Liability to deception and manipulation : the ethics of undercover policing. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 34 (3). pp. 370-388. doi:10.1111/japp.12243 ISSN 0264-3758.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/japp.12243
Abstract
Does undercover police work inevitably wrong its targets? Or are undercover activities justified by a general security benefit? In this article I argue that people can make themselves liable to deception and manipulation. The debate on undercover policing will proceed more fruitfully if the tactic can be conceptualised along those lines, rather than as essentially ‘dirty hands’ activity, in which people are wronged in pursuit of a necessary good, or in instrumentalist terms, according to which the harms of undercover work are straightforwardly overcome by its benefits. This article motivates the ‘liability view’ and describes its attractions, challenges, and implications.
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, Police ethics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Applied Philosophy | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0264-3758 | ||||||||
Official Date: | May 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 34 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 370-388 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/japp.12243 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 July 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 July 2017 |
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