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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452577603321

Titolo

The Ashgate research companion to moral panics / / edited by Charles Krinsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

©2013

ISBN

1-317-04243-3

1-317-04242-5

1-315-61330-1

1-78402-004-4

1-283-85955-6

1-4094-0812-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (501 p.)

Collana

Ashgate research companion

Altri autori (Persone)

KrinskyCharles

Disciplina

302/.17

Soggetti

Moral panics

Moral conditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Moral Panic Concept; PART I THE EVOLUTION OF THE MORAL PANIC CONCEPT; Overview of Part I; 1 The Genealogy and Trajectory of the Moral Panic Concept; 2 Tracking Moral Panic as a Concept; 3 Assemblages of Moral Politics: Yesterday and Today; 4 The Problems with Moral Panic: The Concept's Limitations; PART II SEX PANICS; Overview of Part II; 5 Public Punitiveness, Mediation, and Expertise in Sexual Psychopath Policies

6 Revelation and Cardinals' Sins: Moral Panic over "Pedophile Priests" in the United States7 The Demise of the Same Sex Marriage Panic in Massachusetts; 8 Considering the Agency of Folk Devils; PART III MEDIA PANICS; Overview of Part III; 9 From Nickel Madness to the House of Dreams: Moral Panic and the Emergence of American Cinema; 10 Sexual Predators, Internet Addiction, and Other Media Myths: Moral Panic and the Disappearance of Brandon Crisp; 11 MyMoralPanic:



Adolescents, Social Networking, and Child Sex Crime Panic; PART IV MORAL PANICS OVER CHILDREN AND YOUTH; Overview of Part IV

12 Moral Panics and the Young: The James Bulger Murder, 199313 Children Pushed Aside: Moral Panic over the Family and the State in Contemporary Poland; 14 Moral Panics versus Youth Problem Debates: Three Conceptual Insights from the Study of Japanese Youth; PART V MORAL PANICS AND GOVERNANCE; Overview of Part V; 15 Governing Through Moral Panic: The Governmental Uses of Fear; 16 Hidden in Plain Sight: Moral Panics and the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro; 17 Intermedia Agenda Setting and  the Construction of Moral Panics:  On the Media and Policy Influence of Steven Soderbergh's Traffic

18 I Vote and I Tote: Moral Panics, Resistance, and the Failure of Quiet Regulation19 Is This One It? Viral Moral Panics; PART VI THE FUTURE OF THE MORAL PANIC CONCEPT; Overview of Part VI; 20 A Missing Dimension: The Social Psychology of Moral Panics; 21 Cultural Trauma and Moral Panic: 9/11 and the Mosque at Ground Zero Affair; 22 Moral Panics over the Environment? "Climate Crisis" and the Moral Panics Model; 23 Practicing Moral Panic Research: A Hybrid Model with Guidelines for Its Application*; Appendix I Alternative Thematizations for Classroom Use and Course Reading Lists

Appendix II Moral Panic: A BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

The Ashgate Research Companion to Moral Panics offers a comprehensive assemblage of cutting-edge critical and theoretical perspectives on the concept of moral panic. All chapters represent original research by many of the most influential theorists and researchers now working in the area of moral panic, including Nachman Ben-Yehuda and Erich Goode, Joel Best, Chas Critcher, Mary DeYoung, Alan Hunt, Toby Miller, Willem Schinkel, Kenneth Thompson, Sheldon Ungar, and Grazyna Zajdow.