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Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2026). Spycops: Secrets and Disclosure in the Undercover Policing Inquiry. By R. Schlembach. The British Journal of Criminology, doi: 10.1093/bjc/azag014

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2025). Science Without Conscience. Or How a Criminology Conference Bared the Discipline’s Dead Soul.

Schwarze, T. & Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2022). Copping the blame: the role of YouTube videos in the criminalisation of UK drill music. Popular Music, 41(4), pp. 463-480. doi: 10.1017/s0261143022000563

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2021). Book review: Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy. Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 17(3), pp. 439-441. doi: 10.1177/1741659020951654

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2019). Grime: Criminal subculture or public counterculture? A critical investigation into the criminalization of Black musical subcultures in the UK. Crime, Media, Culture, 15(3), pp. 447-461. doi: 10.1177/1741659018784111

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2016). Becoming public characters, not public intellectuals: Notes towards an alternative conception of public intellectual life. European Journal of Social Theory, 21(3), pp. 267-287. doi: 10.1177/1368431016677977

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2013). Policing the beats: The criminalisation of UK drill and grime music by the London Metropolitan Police. Sociological Review, 67(6), pp. 1300-1316. doi: 10.1177/0038026119842480

Book

Carrigan, M. & Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2021). The Public And Their Platform: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media (pp. 1-243). Policy Press. doi: 10.51952/9781529201062

Book Section

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2026). Introduction. In: Policing the Beats: Black Music, Racism and Criminal Injustice. (pp. 1-12). Manchester University Press.

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2026). Spitting Truth(S) to Power: Rap Music as Evidence of Racial Injustice. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance. Palgrave Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Criminal Justice. (pp. 351-368). Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-02242-4_16

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2025). The Beat of the Gavel Rap, ‘Race’, and Criminal Injustice. In: The Cambridge Companion to Global Rap. Cambridge Companions to Music. (pp. 158-167). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009099738.011

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2025). Racial Capitalism: A Guide for the Naysayer. In: Fúnez-Flores, J. I., Díaz Beltrán, A. C., Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J. , Bakshi, S., Lao-Montes, A. & Rios, F.view all authors (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory. (pp. 522-532). SAGE Publications Limited.

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2024). When the Exception Makes the Rules: Public Order Policing in the Aftermath of COVID-19. In: Di Ronco, A & Selmini, R (Eds.), Criminalisation of Dissent in Times of Crisis. (pp. 113-136). London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-75376-3

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2024). When the Exception Makes the Rules: Public Order Policing in the Aftermath of COVID-19. In: Criminalisation of Dissent in Times of Crisis. Critical Criminological Perspectives. (pp. 113-136). Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-75376-3_6

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2024). Beat(s) for Blame: UK Drill Music, ‘Race’, and Criminal Justice. In: Dale, P., Burnard, P. & Travis, R. (Eds.), Music for Inclusion and Healing in Schools and Beyond Music for Inclusion and Healing in Schools and Beyond. . Oxford University Press.

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2023). The Road, in Court: How UK Drill Music Became a Criminal Offence. In: Levell, J., Young, T. & Earle, R. (Eds.), Exploring Urban Youth Culture Outside of the Gang Paradigm: Critical Questions of Youth, Gender and Race On-Road. (pp. 100-114). Bristol, UK: Policy Press.

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2023). From Overseer to Officer: A Brief History of British Policing Through Afro-Diasporic Music Culture. In: Cavalcanti, R. P., Squires, P. & Waseem, Z. (Eds.), Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order. (pp. 45-61). Bristol, UK: Policy Press.

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2023). Arresting Sounds What UK Soundsystem Culture Teaches Us about Police Racism and Public Life. In: Charles, M. & Gani, M. W. (Eds.), Black Music in Britain in the 21st Century. (pp. 181-198). Liverpool, USA: Liverpool Studies in the Polit.

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2023). Decriminalising Rap Beat by Beat Two Questions in Search of Answers. In: Peters, E. (Ed.), Music in Crime, Resistance, and Identity. (pp. 63-77). Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003186410-6

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X & Lamb, M. (2021). Safety without police: an abolitionist provocation. In: Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X & Lamb, M. (Eds.), Policing the Pandemic How Public Health Becomes Public Order. . Policy Press.

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2021). Sounds Dangerous: Black Music Subcultures as Victims of State Regulation and Social Control. In: Persak, N. & Di Ronco, A. D. (Eds.), Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space: Social Control, Sense and Sensibility. (pp. 30-51). Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge.

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2021). Policing the Union’s Black: The Racial Politics of Law and Order in Contemporary Britain. In: Gordon, F. & Newman, D. (Eds.), Leading Works in Law and Social Justice. (pp. 137-150). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Fatsis, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-951X (2019). Ensinando (com) imaginação sociológica – sugestões para acender uma esperança. In: Ehlert Maia, J. M., Lopes Dos Santos, Y., Blank, T. & Fonseca, V.view all authors (Eds.), Como você ensina?: educação e inovação no ensino de história e de ciências sociais. . Editora FGV.