Ken Dowler

My primary research interest is media criminology. My past work focused on the portrayal of crime in broadcast news and the media's influence on public attitudes toward crime and justice. I have also published several manuscripts in the field of policing. My research has been published in:

• Journal of Criminal Justice
• Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
• Policing & Society
• Police Quarterly
• International Journal of Police Science and Management
• Police Practice and Research: An International Journal
• Journal of Crime and Justice
• Contemporary Justice Review
• American Journal of Criminal Justice

Currently, my work is centered on the depictions of crime and justice in film and television. Most recently, I published a book titled Corporate Wrongdoing on Film: 'The Public be Damned’. At present, I am writing a book on the history of the police shows on television and another book on corporate wrongdoing in Canada.

Dowler, K. & Colaguori, C. (2023). Transnational and Organized Crime in the Age of Globalization. (p.p. 485-524).In Claudio Colaguori (ed). Crime, Deviance and Social Control in the 21st Century: A Social Justice Perspective, Canadian Scholars Press

Dowler, K. & Antonowicz, D. (2022). Corporate Wrongdoing on Film: The ‘Public Be Damned’. Routledge

Dowler, K. (2020). Innocence Lost (and then) Found: The Depiction of Wrongful Convictions in Prison Films, In Marcus Harmes, Meredith Harmes and Barbara Harmes (eds) Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Media pp. 139-163.

Dowler, K. (2020). Within These Walls: The History and Themes of PrisonThemed Television Series, In Marcus Harmes, Meredith Harmes, and Barbara Harmes (eds) Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Media, p.p. 375-393.

Dowler, K. (2017). Police Dramas on Television, In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology, Crime, Media and Popular Culture, pp. 1-26. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.175

Dowler, K. (2015). Violence Unchained: Media Images, Behaviours, and Attitudes, in P. O’Reilly and T. Fleming Violence in Canada, pp. 91-106.

Dowler, K. (2015). Unnecessary Roughness: Violence in Sports, in P. O’Reilly and T. Fleming Violence in Canada, pp. 175-191.

Corporate Wrongdoing on Film: The ‘Public Be Damned’ provides a unique and ground-breaking analysis of corporate wrongdoing depictions, identifying, describing, and categorizing harms perpetrated by corporations.