Blurring intelligence crime : a critical forensics / Willem Bart de Lint.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

de Lint, Willem Bart, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political crimes and offenses.

Criminal law.

White collar crimes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Gateway East, Singapore : Springer, [2021]

Summary:

This book explores the conundrum that political fortune is dependent both on social order and big, constitutive crime. An act of outrageous harm depends on rules and protocols of crime scene discovery and forensic recovery, but political authorities review events for a social agenda, so that crime is designated according to the relative absence or presence of politics. In investigating this problem, the book introduces the concepts 'intelligence crime' and 'critical forensics.' It also reviews as an exemplar of this phenomenon 'apex crime,' a watershed event involving government in the support of a contested political and social order and its primary opponent as the obvious offender, which is then subject to a confirmation bias. Chapters feature case study analysis of a selection of familiar, high profile crimes in which the motives and actions of security or intelligence actors are considered as blurred or smeared depending on their interconnection in transactional political events, or according to friend/enemy status.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Contents

1 Introduction: Blur and a Critical Forensics of Intelligence Crime

Introduction

The Uncertainty of Crime

Critical Forensics: On Making Crime Certain

From Political Crime to Intelligence Crime

Apex: Political Crime as Spectacle

A Critical Forensics of Intelligence Crime

Working Hypothesis and Bias

Outline of the Book

References

2 Forensic Certainties

Discipline (or Truth Claim) Dominion

Equality of Arms

Truth from Adversity

The Institutional Setting and the Organisational Condition-Or Whose Event Is This?

Crime Scene Recovery and Narrative Bias

Establishing Investigatory Command Authority and Securing Crime Scene Control

Exploiting the Crime Scene: Retrieving, Processing and Preserving Relevant Information, Materials or Evidence

Preliminary Review of Materials and Working Hypotheses

Measures of Identity and Review

Errors and Bias

Context Bias or Context Effects

Confirmation Bias, Corroboration Inflation and Tunnel Vision

Discussion and Implications for This Study

Conclusion

3 Anti-forensics: Intelligence Crime and Blur

Critical Institutional Review

Justice or Rule of Law Legality

Order and Ordering

Sovereignty: Vitality and Deep Discretion

A Criminology of Intelligence Crime

Intelligence

Intelligence Crime

Apex Crime

Confirmation Bias: Too Important to Be Uncertain

Transaction and Blur

Blur: Anti-forensics or Wrongdoing Erased

4 The Events of September 11, 2001: Apex Crime

Event and Authority: 'We Have Some Planes'

Claiming the Crime: Not just a Crime, but an Act of War

Establishing Event Authority or Control

Establishing the Crime Scene Dominion.

Following Prosecutorial Requirements

Scene and Narrative

Identifying, Collecting and Preserving Evidence

Examining and Testing Evidence

Identity and Review

Summary Beyond Scope

Discussion and Analysis

5 Intelligence Crime 1: Let's Not Be Too Hard on Ourselves

From the Spectacular to the Quotidian: Routine Operations, Remarkable 'Mistakes'

'Oops, Won't Do It Again': Rainbow Warrior3

Analysis

'Hands Off Our Man'

'Belongs to Intelligence'

Conclusion: Necropolitics on Offer?

6 Intelligence Crime 2: 'Smear,' or Crimes Committed by 'Them'

MH17

Event and Authorities: Joint Investigatory Team (JIT) Terms of Reference

Scene and Narrative: Context Bias

Bias in Evidence Collection

Identities and Review

Skripal, Douma and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

Event and Authority

Scene and Crime

OPCW Forensic Credibility: Chemical Weapons Attack, Douma, Syria

7 The Intelligence Crime Blur: Shaping Opinion, Smudging Records and Spiking Policy

Shaping Liberal Democratic Opinion

Smudging the Record: Pre-Emptive Counter-Forensics

Bridging Across Partisan Divisions by Spiking (Foreign) Policy

Analysis: New Normal Security and Deep Split Politics

Politicising the Review of Political Crime

8 Conclusion

Security Intelligence and Intelligence Crime2

Crimes Too Big to Prosecute and Political Retrenchment

A Conspiratorial Re-View: Radical Scepticism and Critical Forensics6

A-D, Establishment View of Anti-Establishment Conspiracy.

B-C, Anti-Establishment View of Establishment Conspiracy

B-D, Guilt by Association: David Icke

Summary

Simulation, Meta-Rhetoric: It Is Control, Not Justice, Which 'Must Be Seen to Be Done'

Disorder, Knowledge and Political Direction

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

981-16-0352-9

OCLC:

1244117138