Addressing Corruption in the Police Service: The Thick Blue Line

By William John Dodd and Brendan Brookshaw

This book offers an autoethnographic examination of the author's last three years as a serving police officer and as Head of the Professional Standards Department, recorded in personal journals. It analyses the emotional and philosophical impact arising from day-to-day interactions with police officers and reflects on corruption and how it is perceived both inside and outside the service. This book posits a model of the kakistocratic police milieu as a theoretical framework for analysis of the police in contemporary neoliberal liquid modernity which could be used to explore other police phenomenological research data. This autoethnographic insider research provides a rare addition to the knowledge on police corruption. It speaks in particular to those doing professional policing degrees and police practitioners.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031750675
• ISBN13: 9783031750670
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"