The Ethics of Police and Media Stings

Thursday, 16th May 2019, from 09:00 to 16:45

Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, sponsored by the Society for Applied Philosophy

 

Registration: https://ethicsofpoliceandmediastings.eventbrite.co.uk

 

There is a reduced registration fee for graduate students.

 

This workshop is supported by the Society for Applied Philosophy. It features eight invited presentations on the ethics of sting operations, with speakers from criminology, journalism, law, philosophy and politics.

 

Speakers:

 

Christopher Nathan (Warwick), ‘Governing Stings: Regulation and Criminal Justice’

Attila Tanyi (Tromsø), ‘Entrapment and Its Ethics: A Dirty Hands Problem?’

Bethan Loftus (Bangor), ‘Normalising the Exceptional: Covert Surveillance and the Subterranean World of Policing’

Liat Levanon (KCL), ‘Police Entrapment as a Substitute for Bad Character Evidence’

Stephen McLeod (Liverpool), ‘Entrapment and the Public Interest’

Eamonn O’Neill (Edinburgh Napier), ‘Deep Throat, Deep Background or Deep Entrapment: Media Ethics in the Digital Age’

Jeffrey Howard (UCL), ‘The Structure of Subversion’

Daniel Hill (Liverpool), ‘Entrapment and Temptation’

 

Dr Stephen K. McLeod

Associate Dean (Education)

School of the Arts

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University of Liverpool

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