Undercover: Police Surveillance in America
...[a] thoughtful, carefully reasoned, and well-organized survey of the problems and opportunities attendant on undercover operations.... Marx's rigorously analyzed monograph constitutes an important contribution relevant to a current national policy debate. --American Political Science Review, A. Theoharis...a Herculean effort to promulgate almost all that is currently known about the structure and operations of the emerging forms of undercover work.... Just as his earlier study on agents provocateurs and informants has become a landmark on police undercover work in political movements, this latest treatise should also become a landmark on police undercover work directed at criminal activities. --Criminal Justice ReviewA balanced, readable and cogent analysis that convincingly portrays the promises and problems of covert methods. The book has the twin virtues of verisimilitude and realpolitik and sharply etches the issues. I am enormously impressed and have never encountered as comprehensive or knowing a work.... [it] deserves a wide audience beyond practitioners and scholars. --A. Bouza, Chief of Police, MinneapolisA book that ... exudes a sustained and original genius. --London Times, R. Jeffrey-JonesBravo! Gary Marx has written a lucid and sober book.... a terrific book, hard to put down once one begins to read it. Absolutely must-reading for those studying social control processes. --Federal Probation, D. MilovanovicGary Marx's excellent new book ... raises the most delicate questions about what values are being upheld in law enforcement, and what government powers we are prepared to create in the process....Undercovershines a strong, unflinching light on the full array of human and political consequences that ensue when law-enforcement resorts to masquerade. --Dissent, Jim RuleIf you believe in undercover tactics, this book will warn you. If you are opposed to covert activities by the police, this excellent study will force you to rethink your position....Undercoveris indispensable for anyone who wants to understand the threat, but also the usefulness, of surveillance by law enforcement officials. --Father R. Drinan, Georgetown UniversityMarx can be credited with providing an informative, thoughtful and well-documented analysis of an important and neglected area of research. --Social Science Quarterly, D. HawkinsMarx's book provides a comprehensive and well-balanced analysis of the problem.... the crystal clear construction and literary style make it a pleasure to read.... [a] marvelous book. --Police and Society, C. Fijnaut