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Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which they take place.
  • Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism, the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flag burning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the “sex slave” scare
  • Includes a new chapter on the media, currently regarded as a major component of the moral panic
  • Devotes a chapter to addressing criticisms of the first edition as well as the moral panics concept itself
  • Written by long-established experts in the field
  • Designed to fit both self-contained courses on moral panics and wider courses on deviance

Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance

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Hardback by Erich Goode , Nachman Ben-Yehuda

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Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 21/08/2009
    ISBN13: 9781405189347, 978-1405189347
    ISBN10: 1405189347

    Number of Pages: 312

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

    Description

    Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which they take place.
    • Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism, the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flag burning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the “sex slave” scare
    • Includes a new chapter on the media, currently regarded as a major component of the moral panic
    • Devotes a chapter to addressing criticisms of the first edition as well as the moral panics concept itself
    • Written by long-established experts in the field
    • Designed to fit both self-contained courses on moral panics and wider courses on deviance

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