Accounting for Police Whistleblowing
Published online on November 17, 2025
Abstract
Crime & Delinquency, Ahead of Print.
We examine how police whistleblowers make sense of their decisions to speak about or report misconduct in the context of the police code of silence. Specifically, we use the sociology of accounts as a theoretical framework and interviews with 24 former ...
We examine how police whistleblowers make sense of their decisions to speak about or report misconduct in the context of the police code of silence. Specifically, we use the sociology of accounts as a theoretical framework and interviews with 24 former ...