The State / / ed. by Viviene E. Cree.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Complete eBook-Package 2015
• MitwirkendeR: Clapton, Gary,; Cree, Viviene E.,; Fear, William James,; Grand, Elias le,; Greer, Jim,; Hume, Neil,; Kirkwood, Steve,; McKendrick, David,; Smith, Mark,
• HerausgeberIn: Cree, Viviene E.,
• 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 (0 p.)

Many of the individual and social problems that are characterised as moral panics are, in reality, illustrations of a breakdown in the legitimacy of the state. This Byte picks up a number of case-study examples - internet pornography; internet radicalisation; ‘chavs’; the Tottenham riots; patient safety - and explores each through the lens of moral panic ideas, with an appraisal of the work of Stuart Hall, one of the key thinkers in moral panics.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Series editors’ preface -- 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