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My primary research interest is media criminology. My past work focused on the portrayal of crime in broadcast news and the media's influence on public attitudes toward crime and justice. I have also published several manuscripts in the field of policing. My research has been published in:

• Journal of Criminal Justice
• Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
• Policing & Society
• Police Quarterly
• International Journal of Police Science and Management
• Police Practice and Research: An International Journal
• Journal of Crime and Justice
• Contemporary Justice Review
• American Journal of Criminal Justice

Currently, my work is centered on the depictions of crime and justice in film and television. Most recently, I published a book titled Corporate Wrongdoing on Film: 'The Public be Damned’. At present, I am writing a book on the history of the police shows on television and another book on corporate wrongdoing in Canada.

Dowler, K. & Colaguori, C. (2023). Transnational and Organized Crime in the Age of Globalization. (p.p. 485-524).In Claudio Colaguori (ed). Crime, Deviance and Social Control in the 21st Century: A Social Justice Perspective, Canadian Scholars Press

Dowler, K. & Antonowicz, D. (2022). Corporate Wrongdoing on Film: The ‘Public Be Damned’. Routledge

Dowler, K. (2020). Innocence Lost (and then) Found: The Depiction of Wrongful Convictions in Prison Films, In Marcus Harmes, Meredith Harmes and Barbara Harmes (eds) Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Media pp. 139-163.

Dowler, K. (2020). Within These Walls: The History and Themes of PrisonThemed Television Series, In Marcus Harmes, Meredith Harmes, and Barbara Harmes (eds) Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Media, p.p. 375-393.

Dowler, K. (2017). Police Dramas on Television, In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology, Crime, Media and Popular Culture, pp. 1-26. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.175

Dowler, K. (2015). Violence Unchained: Media Images, Behaviours, and Attitudes, in P. O’Reilly and T. Fleming Violence in Canada, pp. 91-106.

Dowler, K. (2015). Unnecessary Roughness: Violence in Sports, in P. O’Reilly and T. Fleming Violence in Canada, pp. 175-191.

provides a unique and ground-breaking analysis of corporate wrongdoing depictions, identifying, describing, and categorizing harms perpetrated by corporations.