Countering terrorism through the use of informants: the Northern Ireland experience

Cochrane, Mark A.; Monaghan, Rachel

doi:10.1080/19434472.2011.631346

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“…12 eISSN 2522-9125 pISSN 2524-0471 https://new.comteka.com.ua/ Из целине аргументације везане за проверу научне основе оперативно-интервентних сазнања у криминалистичкој кривично-процесној теорији и пракси могуће је констатовати парадигматску претпоставку следеће садржине: да је тако "лако" у савременој пракси прибавити тачне криминалистичке или кривично-процесне опсервационе податке и проверене информације о понашању криминалних особа у криминалном миљеу, криминалистички истражитељи и аналитичари би одавно напустили технику прибављања оперативно-интервентних сазнања од врбованих оперативних извора, као што су нпр. информатори-доушници (Innes, 2000;Cochrane, Monaghan, 2012).…”

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Scientific basis of criminalistic, analytical - operational knowledge

Danilović,

Manojlović,

Gajić

2023

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The paper looks into the scientific basis of criminalistic analytical-operational knowledge. In criminal proceedings, this type of knowledge is the basis of legal sustainability and credibility of the indictment, criminal investigation and evidence before the court, and for development of public policy in the fight against crime in modern society. The purpose of the paper is to prove that the basis of criminal operational and analytical work is intellectual activity in which the procedures of logical, meaningful, systematic and reasoned, rather than common sense of criminal analysts are strictly followed in the process of acquiring operational knowledge, which includes naming and marking criminal phenomena, processes and events and represents a logical basis for understanding the analytical process in criminalistics. In criminalistic operational-analytical research, accurate, relative and applicable knowledge is gained about a certain subject from the criminal milieu, by applying adequate criminalistic and other research methods, which fulfills two essential preconditions of this type of research, primarily the determined object of criminalistic operational research and verified methods of true or at least probable knowledge. The methodology of the research subject in this paper required the application of the operational method of document content analysis in conjunction with hypothetical-deductive and statistical methods, as well as basic analytical-synthetic methods of knowledge. The research results provided a scientifically based theoretical-methodological view of criminalistic analytics and its end product criminalistic, operational-intervention and operational-instructive knowledge that will be helpful to criminalistic and other analysts and researchers in various state institutions and organizations that have a developed criminalistic-analytical and investigative activity in their organizational structure.

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Scientific basis of criminalistic, analytical - operational knowledge

Danilović,

Manojlović,

Gajić

2023

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“…The available literature is clear that the use of informants in policing has a long history (see Clark, 2007: 431;Shane, 2016: 2) across a variety of jurisdictions: from the United States (US) and Canada (see Bloom, 2002;Wool, 1985) to Mexico and the UK (see Fondevila, 2013;Innes, 2000). The use of informants has particularly featured in the 'house of high-policing' (Sheptycki, 2007), where this tactic has been successfully deployed against networks implicated in terrorism and organised crime for some considerable time (see Bean and Billingsley, 2001;Moran, 2010;Charters, 2012;Cochrane and Monaghan, 2012). 1 In fact the use of human informants in such fields is considered 'typical' (Manning, 2016: 25).…”

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Mind the grass! Exploring the assessment of informant coverage in policing and law enforcement

Atkinson

2019

Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism

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The use of informants, or Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS), has become a mainstay of contemporary policing and law enforcement in the United Kingdom as police, security and enforcement agencies seek to tackle a range of crimes. Recognising the relative paucity of enquiry on this subject, and addressing the associated requirement for further empirical research, this paper explores how 'informant coverage' -the extent to which informants can provide information on targets, suspects, crimes, and criminal conspiracies -is assessed in policing and law enforcement in Scotland. It is principally informed by qualitative research conducted in 2017 and 2018, comprised of semi-structured interviews with 19 participants. Drawing upon a thematic analysis of the resultant data, and enriched by the author's prior experience as a practitioner in this field, this paper identifies the strengths and limitations of established practices. Additionally, this paper highlights the emerging role of analysis, and the contribution of the intelligence analyst, in this specialist area of intelligence work. It concludes that if analysis is to make a valuable and continuing contribution to the effective use of informants in future practice then sustained proactive leadership will be required to support such innovative approaches.

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Dilemmas of the terrorist underworld: the management of internal secrecy in terrorist organisations

Marone

2021

Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression

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Countering terrorism through the use of informants: the Northern Ireland experience

Cited by 5 publications

References 26 publications

Scientific basis of criminalistic, analytical - operational knowledge

Scientific basis of criminalistic, analytical - operational knowledge

Mind the grass! Exploring the assessment of informant coverage in policing and law enforcement

Dilemmas of the terrorist underworld: the management of internal secrecy in terrorist organisations

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