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Professor Scott Bonn is a criminology scholar, media expert and social critic. He is the author of "Mass Deception: Moral Panic and the US War on Iraq" (2010), the critically acclaimed new book on the Iraq war, news media and the G.W. Bush administration from Rutgers University Press. Bonn is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.

Professor Bonn is not your average academic. He combines the knowledge and skills of an academic scholar with more than twenty years of senior-level corporate experience as an advertising and media executive. As such, he has unique insights into the public’s attitudes and beliefs, how they are shaped, and the agenda-setting powers of the government and the news media. Bonn has developed 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.Bonn is a prolific researcher, author and speaker. He received his doctorate in sociology at the University of Miami, FL. 

Bonn teaches courses in criminology, sociology of deviance, media and crime, and criminal justice. His primary research interests include white-collar crime, state crime and media effects on society. His research examines how and why the public forms its beliefs on complex issues such as crime, drugs, punishment, war and terrorism. Prior to his academic career, Bonn held high-ranking corporate positions such as Vice President at NBC Television Network and Executive Vice President at SonicNet, an award-winning, Internet-based music service that is now part of MTV Networks. He resides in Manhattan, New York.