Copaganda - Alec Karakatsanis

Copaganda

How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2025
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-62097-853-5 (ISBN)
28,65 inkl. MwSt
From the prizewinning rising legal star, the deeply researched and definitive book on the way the media and police distract us from what matters

“Alec Karakatsanis is a leading voice in the legal struggle to dismantle mass incarceration. . . . What he says cannot be ignored.”
—James Forman‚ Jr.




“Copaganda,” as defined by Alec Karakatsanis, describes a special kind of propaganda, employed by police and news media, that shapes our fears and influences the social investments we make to address those fears. In a country that incarcerates five times more people per capita than it used to, and far more than other countries, the sprawling punishment bureaucracy spends a lot of time and money to manipulate public perception. This results in a distorted version of threat, crime, punishment, and safety in the news, which, for example, highlights crimes committed by marginalized people while ignoring more significant harms like wage theft, environmental crime, and deaths that result from harmful behavior like corporate fraud or cigarette smoke (which make the number of violent crimes pale in comparison).




The news also suggests to us that increased government repression through police, prosecution, probation, parole, and prisons is the best response, as opposed to addressing the root causes of harm. In the spirit of Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent, Copaganda includes chapters on “What Is News?,” “Public Relations Spending by the Police,” “Whose Perspective? How Sources Shape News,” “How the News Uses Experts,” “How to Smuggle Ideology into the News,” and “Academic Copaganda.“




Recognized by Teen Vogue as “one of the most prominent voices” in contemporary discourse about the criminal legal system and featured on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and The Breakfast Club, Karakatsanis brings his legal expertise, humor, personal stories, and analytical skills to delve into one of the most critical topics in our society today.

A former public defender, Alec Karakatsanis is the founder of the Civil Rights Corps, an organization designed to advocate for racial justice and bring systemic civil rights cases on behalf of impoverished people. He was named the 2016 Trial Lawyer of the Year by Public Justice and was awarded the Stephen B. Bright Award for contributions to indigent defense in the South by Gideon’s Promise. The author of Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System (The New Press), he lives in Washington, DC.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.5.2025
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Sprache englisch
Maße 139 x 215 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-62097-853-9 / 1620978539
ISBN-13 978-1-62097-853-5 / 9781620978535
Zustand Neuware
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