Police Informers - Softcover

Settle, Rod

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1862871485 ISBN 13: 9781862871489

Publisher: Federation Press, 1995

Synopsis

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Synopsis

The use of informers is a routine part of much criminal investigation work. Settle's book is a scholarly analysis of the informer's role. Based on extensive Australian field research, including a wide range of interviews, he redefines the stereotype of informers and the part they play. Focusing around a detailed case study of the investigation into the Walsh Street Murders, the book also raises disturbing issues about police use of prison informers as an alternative to "verballing" and of "public policy privilege" in the courts to conceal sources of information, and about the callousness with which many individual informers are discarded when they have outlived their usefulness to the Crown.

Edition details

• Publisher: Federation Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1862871485
• ISBN 13: 9781862871489
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296