Working with Informants
Working with Informants
Chapter four highlights the actual ways that law enforcement officers work with confidential informants. Here the processes by which informants are identified and recruited are discussed, including a stage model for conceptualizing the process. The means by which officials communicate with potential informants is addressed, especially how indentured informants are convinced to provide information so as to assist themselves in their own (or others’) legal entanglements. Also highlighted are the characteristics that law enforcement officers find desirable and challenging, including the role of gender, and how different characteristics of officers, informants, and situations coalesce to create information exchanges.
Keywords: Intelligence gathering, recruitment, background, foundation stage, construction, closing, management, good informant
California Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
