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Mass
Deception
Price: $24.95
Subtitle: Moral
Panic and the U.S. War on Iraq
Author: Scott A. Bonn
Foreword by Michael Welch
Subject: Sociology,
Criminology
Paper ISBN:
978-0-8135-4789-3
Cloth ISBN:
978-0-8135-4788-6
Pages:
210 pages, 12 tables, 1
graph
Publication Date: September 2010
Series:
Critical
Issues in Crime and Society
Read:
Chapter 1
Praise for Mass Deception:
"An impressively documented and researched study of an immensely consequential topic that deserves a wide readership. Highly Recommended."
—Choice, Jan 2011
"This book is a timely contribution to the
emerging study of state crime. Bonn does a fine job of explicating
moral panic and elite deviance arguments in the context of the Iraq
war. A clear and compelling read."—Gray Cavender, Justice
& Social Inquiry, Arizona State University
"Bonn offers a careful analysis of the
post-9/11 build-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. This
book should be of great interest to scholars in the sociology of
deviance, communication, political science, and to the general public."—Amie L. Nielsen,
Department of sociology, University of Miami
Description:
The attacks of 9/11
led to a war on Iraq, although there was neither tangible evidence that
the nation’s leader, Saddam Hussein, was linked to Osama bin Laden nor
proof of weapons of mass destruction. Why, then, did the Iraq war
garner so much acceptance in the United States during its primary
stages?
Mass Deception
argues that the George W. Bush administration manufactured public
support for the war on Iraq. Scott A. Bonn introduces a unique,
integrated, and interdisciplinary theory called “critical
communication” to explain how and why political elites and the news
media periodically create public panics that benefit both parties.
Using quantitative analysis of public opinion polls and presidential
rhetoric pre- and post-9/11 in the news media, Bonn applies the moral
panic concept to the Iraq war. He critiques the war and occupation of
Iraq as violations of domestic and international law. Finally, Mass
Deception connects propaganda and distortion efforts by the Bush
administration to more general theories of elite deviance and state
crime.
About the Author:
Scott A. Bonn is an
assistant professor of sociology at Drew University.
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