Investigative Ethics

Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal Investigators

Investigative Ethics: Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal Investigators presents applied philosophical analyses of the ethical issues that arise for police detectives and other investigators in contemporary society.

• Explores ethical issues relating to investigative independence, rights of victims and suspects, use of informants, entrapment, privacy and surveillance, undercover operations, deception, and suspect interviewing
• Represents the first monograph providing a detailed consideration of ethical issues in police investigations
• Features authorship by an applied philosopher specializing in police ethics, and a former UK senior police officer
• Combined authorship ensures the text is anchored in actual police practice as well as providing high quality ethical analysis