Holding to account or amplifying extremist hate? A mixed methods analysis of newspaper reporting on far-right crime in Australia

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Imogen RichardsCam SmithGreg BartonAlfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, AustraliaImogen Richards is a lecturer in criminology at Deakin University. She researches in the areas of new and alternative forms of media, the political economy of (counter-)terrorism, and the performance of security in response to social crisis.Cam Smith is a researcher at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. His areas of research are the far right, conspiracy culture and disinformation.Greg Barton is Chair of Global Islamic Politics at Deakin University. He is a leading scholar in research into hate and hateful extremism and the interactions between hateful extremism and violent extremism, both in Australia and in Southeast Asia.

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