Moral Panics in the Contemporary World [Hardcover]

Moral Panics in the Contemporary Worldrepresents the best current theoretical and empirical work on the topic, taken from the international conference on moral panics held at Brunel University. The range of contributors, from established scholars to emerging ones in the field, and from a working journalist as well, helps to cover a wide range of moral panics, both old and new, and extend the geographical scope of moral panic analysis to previously underrepresented areas.
Designed from the outset to comprise a coherent and integrated set of viewpoints which share a common engagement with critically exploring moral panics in the contemporary world, it contains case studies instantly recognisable and familiar to a student readership (drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse and racism). The collection brings a fresh approach to analysis and argument by testing and extending the concept of moral panic and analyzing a range of topics and geographical contexts, accurately reflecting the state-of-the-art moral panics research today.

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Contributors

1.Moral Panics in the Contemporary World: Enduring Controversies and Future Directions
Amanda Rohloff, Julian Petley, Jason Hughes, and Chas Critcher

Part 1: Rethinking Moral Panics

2.The Cautionary Tale: A New Paradigm for Studying Media Coverage of Crime
Sarah E.H. Moore

3.The Journalist, Folk Devil
Paul Lashmar

4.Are We Insane?' The Video Nasty' Moral Panic
Julian Petley

Part 2: Lifestyle, Risk and Health

5.Theorising Alcohol in Public Discourse: Moral Panics or Moral Regulation?
Henry Yeomans

6.Moral Panics, Governmentality and the Media: A Comparative Approach to the Analysis of Illegal Drug Use in the News
Jeremy Collins

7.He Who Buries the Little Girl Wins!' Moral Panics as Double Jeopardy: The Case ofRule of Rose