Spycops in context

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Spycops in context: Beneath the undercover policing scandal

Since at least the turn of the nineteenth century, the British state has utilised coercive methods to monitor, constrain and undermine political dissent.

Surveillance, databases,...

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New publications on undercover policing

Over the past year, we have hosted a Research Fellow, Connor Woodman, sponsored by the Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust.

The Centre is today publishing two papers on undercover policing Connor has written as part of this Fellowship, under the title Spycops in context.

From 1968-2008 a dedicated police...

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The two papers seek to historicise and analyse state infiltration, revealing it as one tactic in a much larger repertoire of political policing. Spycops in context: a brief history of political policing in Britain One of the papers, Spycops in context: a brief history of political policing in...