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48 U.B.C. L. Rev. 47 (2015)
Boys, You Should All Be in Hollywood: Perspectives on the Mr. Big Investigative Technique

handle is hein.journals/ubclr48 and id is 55 raw text is: BOYS, YOU SHOULD ALL BE IN HOLLYWOOD: PERSPECTIVES ON THE MR. BIG INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUE ELIZABETH SUKKAU1 & JOAN BROCKMAN INTRODUCTION The Mr. Big Operation (MBO)' is under academic scrutiny.2 This investigative technique involves the creation of a fictitious criminal t BA (Honours with Distinction), Simon Fraser University; JD Candidate, University of British Columbia. We would like to thank the students who took the time to respond to the questionnaire I used in my honours thesis. This article is a revised version of my thesis. We are also grateful to the UBC Law Review editors for their thoughtful editing suggestions. + Professor, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University and a non-practising member of the Law Societies of British Columbia and Alberta. Email: brockman@sfu.ca. This acronym was introduced by Amar Khoday. See Amar Khoday, Scrutinizing Mr. Big: Police Trickery, the Confessions Rule and the Need to Regulate Extra-Custodial Undercover Interrogations (2014) 60:2 Crim LQ277. 2 See Kouri T Keenan & Joan Brockman, Mr. Big: Exposing Undercover Investigations in Canada (Halifax: Fernwood, 2010); Khoday, supra note 1; MaDonna Maidment, When justice is a Game: Unravelling Wrongful Convictions in Canada (Black Point, NS: Fernwood, 2009); David Milward, Opposing Mr. Big in Principle (2013) 46:1 UBC L Rev 81; Timothy E Moore, Peter Copeland & Regina A Schuller, Deceit, Betrayal and the Search for Truth: Legal and Psychological Perspectives on the 'Mr. Big' Strategy (2009) 55:3 Crim LQ 348; Timothy E Moore & Kouri Keenan, What Is Voluntary? On the Reliability of Admissions Arising from Mr. Big Undercover Operations (2013) 5:1 Investigative Interviewing: Research & Practice 46; Christopher Nowlin, Excluding the Post-Offence Undercover Operation From Evidence-'Warts and Alf' (2004) 8 Can Crim L Rev 381; Kate Puddister & Troy Riddell, The RCMP's 'Mr. Big' Sting Operation: A Case Study in Police Independence, Accountability and Oversight (2012) 55:3 Can Public Administration 385; Steven M Smith, Veronica Stinson & Marc W Patry, Using the

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