Imogen Richards is a senior lecturer in criminology at Deakin University, Australia. Her research examines comparative forms of political violence, with a particular focus on the mediation of violence and its dynamics. Her solo and co-authored books include Neoliberalism and Neo-Jihadism (Manchester University Press, 2020), Criminologists in the Media (Routledge, 2022), Global Heating and the Australian Far Right (Routledge, 2023), and The Aesthetic Politics of Far-Right Environmentalism (Palgrave, 2025).