Revisiting Moral Panics / / ed. by Viviene E. Cree, Gary Clapton, Mark Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Complete eBook-Package 2015
• MitwirkendeR: Beddoe, Liz,; Benson, Michaela,; Brown, Sally,; Butler, Ian,; Charsley, Katharine,; Clapton, Gary,; Clark, Colin,; Cree, Viviene E.,; Critcher, Charles,; Fear, William James,; Furedi, Frank,; Greer, Jim,; Grumett, David,; Hardy, Mark,; Hume, Neil,; Kirkwood, Steve,; Lynch, Heather,; Mannay, Dawn,; McKendrick, David,; Mellon, Maggie,; Meyer, Anneke,; Payne, Malcolm,; Quayle, Ethel,; Smith, Mark,; Tartari, Morena,; Tisdall, Kay,; Waiton, Stuart,; Westwood, Joanne,; le Grand, Elias,
• HerausgeberIn: Clapton, Gary,; Cree, Viviene E.,; Smith, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Moral Panics in Theory and Practice
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)

We live in a world that is increasingly characterised as full of risk, danger and threat. Every day a new social issue emerges to assail our sensibilities and consciences. Drawing on the popular Economic Social and Research Council (ESRC) seminar series, this book examines these social issues and anxieties, and the solutions to them, through the concept of moral panic. With a commentary by Charles Critcher and contributions from both well-known and up-and-coming researchers and practitioners, this is a stimulating and innovative overview of moral panic ideas, which will be an essential resource.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Commentary: moral panics yesterday, today and tomorrow -- Gender and the family -- Introduction -- Women and children first: contemporary Italian moral panics and the role of the state -- Myths, monsters and legends: negotiating an acceptable working-class femininity in a marginalised and demonised Welsh locale -- Making a moral panic: ‘feral families’, family violence and welfare reforms in New Zealand. Doing the work of the state? -- The wrong type of mother: moral panic and teenage parenting -- Amoral panic: the fall of the autonomous family and the rise of ‘early intervention’ -- Afterword: when panic meets practice -- Moral panics in our time? Childhood and youth -- Introduction -- Child protection and moral panic -- Unearthing melodrama: moral panic theory and the enduring characterisation of child trafficking -- Lost childhood? -- Internet risk research and child sexual abuse: a misdirected moral panic? -- The Rotherham abuse scandal -- Afterword -- The state -- Introduction -- Children and internet pornography: a moral panic, a salvation for censors and Trojan horse for government colonisation of the digital frontier -- Internet radicalisation and the ‘Woolwich Murder’ -- Moralising discourse and the dialectical formation of class identities: the social reaction to ‘chavs’ in Britain -- The presence of the absent parent: troubled families and the England ‘riots’ of 2011 -- Patient safety: a moral panic -- Afterword -- Moral regulation -- Introduction -- The moral crusade against paedophilia -- Animal welfare, morals and faith in the ‘religious slaughter’ debate -- From genuine to sham marriage: moral panic and the ‘authenticity’ of relationships -- Integration, exclusion and the moral ‘othering’ of Roma migrant communities in Britain -- Assisted dying: moral panic or moral issue? -- Afterword: the moral in moral panics -- Moral panics and beyond -- Index