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Immigration Policies, State Discourses on Foreigners, and the Politics of Identity in Switzerland
Twenty-first-century drug warriors: the press, privateers and the for-profit waging of the war on drugs
International Trends in the Facilitation of Witness Co-operation in Organized Crime Cases
This article surveys the existing literature on the facilitation of witness co-operation 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 compar-isons 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