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The ‘spycops’ scandal has laid bare the existence of secretive police units that sent undercover police officers to infiltrate and undermine hundreds of political campaigns and activist groups.
This is the first academic analysis of the activists’ experiences and their attempts to find answers and accountability in the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Written from the perspective of the ‘policed’, the author draws on extensive fieldwork and his first-hand experience of police infiltration through his participation in climate campaigns.
"The undercover policing of left-wing activists was unjustified and anti-democratic. Raphael Schlembach meticulously documents the victims' fight for answers and accountability. In revealing police strategies to conceal and obstruct, his book is an indispensable part of this fight." Jenny Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
Chapter 1 – An (Un)acknowledged Truth
Chapter 2 – The Undercover Policing Scandal
Chapter 3 – Deviant Knowledge and Activist Research
Chapter 4 – The Public Inquiry as a Site of Struggle
Chapter 5 – Dirty Data and Devices of Dis/Closure
Chapter 6 – Human Rights and Data Protection
Chapter 7 – In and Against the Undercover Policing Inquiry
Chapter 8 – Public Inquiries at a Crossroads