Propaganda Studies in Criminology

Deborah H. Drake is Professor of Criminology and Social Justice at The Open University, UK.  She completed her PhD in criminology at the University of Cambridge (2007) and her MA in sociology at the University of Saskatchewan (2003). She is author of a number of journal articles and of Prisons, Punishment and the Pursuit of Security (Palgrave, 2012) and co-editor of Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography (2015).Reece Walters is Professor of Criminology at Deakin University, Australia. He completed his PhD at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2000). He is the author of Deviant Knowledge (2003), Eco Crime and Genetically Modified Food (2010), Southern Criminology (2018), and Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century: Too Dirty, Too Little, Too Much (2018).

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• Chapter 1: Fake News is Nothing New: An Introduction to Propaganda Studies in Criminology – Deborah H. Drake and Reece Walters.- Chapter 2: How to Analyse Propaganda: A Case Study of the War on Drugs – Deborah H. Drake and Keir Irwin-Rogers.- Chapter 3: Propaganda as Incitement Towards and Justification for the Indonesian Genocide 1965-66 – Saskia E. Wieringa.- Chapter 4: Taking Conspiracy Thought Seriously: A Sociological Perspective – Luis Roniger and Leonardo Senkman.- Chapter 5: Gendered Environmental Propaganda: The Evolution of Far-Right Political Messaging in Australia and New Zealand – Imogen Richards & Callum Jones.- Chapter 6: The Emotional Dynamics of Love, Fear and Excitement: A Case Study of Jihadi Propaganda Magazines – Hans M. Sunde.- Chapter 7: Italy, Immigrants and Propaganda – Francesco Buscemi.-Chapter 8: Police Image Work on Social Media as Bureaucratic Propaganda – Christopher J. Schneider.- Chapter 9: Copaganda and Far-Right Police Influencers in Brazil: A Punitive Grammar of Corporate Practices – Felipe da Veiga Dias and Augusto Jobim do Amaral.- Chapter 10: Peddlers of Propaganda: Academic Copaganda, the Neoliberal University and the Police – Kenneth Dowler.- Chapter 11: Ethical Threats in a Post-Truth Era: Propaganda, Artificial Intelligence, and Coercive Control in the Legal Profession – Marin Dell.- Chapter 12: Fighting Fire with Facts: Detecting, Decoding, and Dismantling Online Propaganda – Ashton Kingdon.