Scott Poynting

Scott Poynting is Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology and at Charles Sturt University, having held chairs in Criminology at the University of Auckland (2013-2016) and in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University (2007-2012). His research interests include racism, nationalism and ethnic relations, state terrorism and the ‘war on terror’. He has co-authored with Paul Tabar and Greg Noble, On Being Lebanese in Australia (LAU Press, 2010), with Mike Donaldson Ruling Class Men: Money, Sex, Power (Peter Lang, 2007); and with Greg Noble, Paul Tabar and Jock Collins, Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other (Institute of Criminology, 2004) and Kebabs, Kids, Cops and Crime: Youth, Ethnicity and Crime (Pluto Australia, 2000); and has  co-edited with Monish Bhatia and Waqas Tufail Media, Crime and Racism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), with  George Morgan Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West (Ashgate 2012), with David Whyte Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence (Routledge 2012), with Richard Jackson and Eamon Murphy Contemporary State Terrorism (Routledge 2010) and several other books.