Under a bad sun : police, politics, and corruption in Australia
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Under a bad sun : police, politics, and corruption in Australia
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The work Under a bad sun : police, politics, and corruption in Australia represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Colby College Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Under a bad sun : police, politics, and corruption in Australia
- Title remainder
- police, politics, and corruption in Australia
- Statement of responsibility
- Paul Bleakley
- Subject
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- History
- Police
- Police -- Australia | Queensland -- History -- 20th century
- Police -- Australia | Queensland -- History -- 20th century
- Police corruption
- Police corruption -- Australia | Queensland -- Case studies
- Police corruption -- Australia | Queensland -- Case studies
- Political corruption
- 1900-1999
- Political corruption -- Australia | Queensland -- Case studies
- Politics and government
- Queensland
- Queensland -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Queensland -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Political corruption -- Australia | Queensland -- Case studies
- Case studies
- Case studies
- Case studies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Historical criminologist Paul Bleakley examines a case of police corruption in Queensland, Australia, in which law enforcement had free rein to profit from criminalized vice in return for supporting the government's repression and persecution of its political enemies, from punk music fans to gay men to protestors. While intimidating members of the political opposition, the police also protected the state premier's friends and allies from criminal prosecution-even for offenses as serious as child sex abuse. When journalists and investigators revealed this corrupt bargain in 1987, the premier was forced from office and the police commissioner went to prison"--
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- DLC
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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