TY - JOUR
T1 - Shadowing ‘the exceptional’ behind the ‘ordinary’: mapping a network of intelligence laundering
AU - Ugolini, Vanessa
AU - Smith, M.L.R.
N1 - doi: 10.1080/02684527.2020.1791488
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Under the imperative of ‘prevention’, the process of information production for investigatory purposes forms a crossover between intelligence gathering and law enforcement. Digital surveillance programmes collect personal data prior to any probable cause of suspicion, whereas law enforcement activities are concerned with collecting evidence of crimes after the event. When future looking preventative approaches to the prosecution of crimes are forced into the linear, temporal narrative by which criminal investigations unfold, a tension emerges. The article demonstrates the ultimate incompatibility between ‘out of the ordinary’ intelligence activities and ‘ordinary’ criminal investigations by unearthing the procedural character behind evidence laundering.
AB - Under the imperative of ‘prevention’, the process of information production for investigatory purposes forms a crossover between intelligence gathering and law enforcement. Digital surveillance programmes collect personal data prior to any probable cause of suspicion, whereas law enforcement activities are concerned with collecting evidence of crimes after the event. When future looking preventative approaches to the prosecution of crimes are forced into the linear, temporal narrative by which criminal investigations unfold, a tension emerges. The article demonstrates the ultimate incompatibility between ‘out of the ordinary’ intelligence activities and ‘ordinary’ criminal investigations by unearthing the procedural character behind evidence laundering.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087913679&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02684527.2020.1791488
DO - 10.1080/02684527.2020.1791488
M3 - Article
SN - 0268-4527
VL - 36
SP - 1
EP - 23
JO - Intelligence and National Security
JF - Intelligence and National Security
IS - 1
ER -