Erich Goode, Nachman Ben-Yehuda
English
ISBN: 1405189347, 1405189339
2009
320 pages
PDF
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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