ISBN10: 1405189339, ISBN13: 9781405189330, [publisher: Wiley Sep 2009] Softcover Neuware - 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
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2009]
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