Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America - Couverture rigide

Whitaker, Reginald; Kealey, Gregory S.; Parnaby, Andrew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 080200752X ISBN 13 : 9780802007520

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2012

Synopsis

Secret Service provides the first comprehensive history of political policing in Canada from its beginnings in the midnineteenth century, through two world wars and the Cold War to the more recent war on terror. This book reveals the extent, focus, and politics of government-sponsored surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations. Drawing on previously classified government records, the authors reveal that for over 150 years, Canada has run spy operations largely hidden from public or parliamentary scrutiny complete with undercover agents, secret sources, agent provocateurs, coded communications, elaborate files, and all the usual apparatus of deception and betrayal so familiar to fans of spy fiction. As they argue, what makes Canada unique among Western countries is its insistent focus of its surveillance inwards, and usually against Canadian citizens. Secret Service highlights the many tensions that arise when undercover police and their covert methods are deployed too freely in a liberal democratic society. It will prove invaluable to readers attuned to contemporary debates about policing, national security, and civil rights in a post-9/11 world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Reginald Whitaker is a professor of Political Science, York University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080200752X
• ISBN 13: 9780802007520
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 720
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible