International Trends in the Facilitation of Witness Co-operation in Organized Crime Cases
International Trends in the Facilitation of Witness Co-operation in Organized Crime Cases
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促进有组织犯罪案件中证人合作的国际趋势
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2006
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J. Sheptycki
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N. Fyfe;J. Sheptycki
本文调查了美国和多个欧洲国家关于促进证人合作的现有文献。它强调了使用犯罪线人和证人作为调查和起诉有组织犯罪的核心方法的法律格局的演变趋势。它还探讨了辩诉交易、证人豁免以及刑事线人和便衣警察证词的使用。它对这些技术的发展进行了比较，并参考了各国关于这些措施的有效性的实践叙述历史和法律辩论。文章的结论是，尽管这些发展存在重大道德风险，而且这些技术的有效性尚未得到可靠的实证研究的充分证明，但在可预见的未来，它们可能仍然有效。
This article surveys the existing literature on the facilitation of witness cooperation in the USA and a variety of European countries. It highlights trends in the evolution of the legal landscape concerning the use of criminal informants and witnesses as the central approach to the investigation and prosecution of organized crime. It also looks at the use of plea-bargaining, witness immunity, and criminal informant and undercover police testimony. It provides comparisons in the development of these techniques and it does so by reference to the narrative histories of practice and legal debate about the efficacy of these measures in various countries. The article concludes that, although significant moral hazards are associated with these developments, and although the efficacy of these techniques has not been fully demonstrated by solid empirical research, they are likely to remain in force for the foreseeable future.