Policing Child Sexual Abuse - Failure, Corruption and Reform in Queensland

This is an origin story for the policing of child sexual abuse in Queensland, Australia, the first book to focus on charting child sexual abuse policing in Queensland, pulling together threads of historical institutional abuse, organised paedophilia, police corruption and contemporary success in policing this crime online.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Care and control
2. Records of abuse
3. A human wrecking ball
4. The receipts
5. Shot down in a BLAZE
6. Déjà vu
7. A predator’s playground
8. Bring in Mr Big
9. The many eyes of Argos

About the author

Paul Bleakley is a Lecturer in Criminology at Middlesex University, London. His research focuses on policing, with a particular emphasis on historical police corruption and reform.

Summary

This is an origin story for the policing of child sexual abuse in Queensland, Australia, the first book to focus on charting child sexual abuse policing in Queensland, pulling together threads of historical institutional abuse, organised paedophilia, police corruption and contemporary success in policing this crime online.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Bleakley
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2021
• EAN: 9781032034225
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3203422-5
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Legal History, Legal History, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology