One of Foucault's many unfinished projects was an analysis of the links between law, power
and subjectivity. This article aims to make a contribution to Foucauldian jurisprudence by …

Introduced in Australia in the late 1990s, the Mr Big investigative technique is a complex
undercover police operation structured around a fictional criminal gang, which is created to …

Investigation of crime is central to the function and purpose of law enforcement.
Contemporary investigation depends on a sophisticated arsenal of theories and techniques …

In Queen v Hart, the Supreme Court of Canada recognised what was described as a 'new
rule of evidence'concerning confessions obtained during 'Mr Big'operations. This …

Surveillance practices are typically divisible between the activities of private and state
actors. A complex system of regulated and unregulated activity is interfaced with legal …

This thesis presents a Post-Foucauldian analysis of Australian controlled operations law.
The purpose was to extend current doctrinal scholarship by exploring the discursive forces …

Corrupt relationships between investigators and informers can compromise the integrity of
the criminal justice system. Supervision of relationships between individual investigators …

This chapter is concerned with the ways in which covert investigation generally, and
controlled operations specifically, are understood in contemporary legal literature. Drawing …

Ridgeway transformed Australian law by placing covert investigation, in the form of
'controlled operations', on a statutory footing. And yet, from the outset it is important not to …

The investigation of crime is a core function of contemporary law enforcement, and critical to
any subsequent prosecution. Without it there would little, if any, evidence capable of …