Domestic Spying: A Historical-Comparative Perspective

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Chapter 7 - Domestic Spying: A Historical-Comparative Perspective

from Part I - Problems Related to Health, Safety, and Security

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 March 2018

Mathieu Deflem ,

Derek M. D. Silva and

Anna S. Rogers

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A. Javier Treviño

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A. Javier Treviño: Affiliation:
Wheaton College, Massachusetts

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Domestic spying is a cultural construct that refers to the activities of, and debate on, intelligence agencies oriented at the home population of citizens within nations. In the United States, the debate on domestic spying has been especially intense as the country has a long-standing culture and accompanying legal and political framework devoted to protecting individual rights of nonintervention. Unlike several other democratic nations, the United States has no specialized self-standing domestic intelligence agents, with such functions being handled by other agencies of law enforcement and foreign intelligence. This chapter reviews the patterns and dynamics of domestic spying in terms of the historical development of domestic intelligence work and offers a comparative overview of such activities in a number of nations. This comparative-historical outlook should be advantageous both for the analysis of domestic spying as a social problem and in terms of the normative framing of the debate within cultures committed to civil liberties as well as national security.

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Information: The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems , pp. 109 - 126

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