Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance
- ISBN-10
- 1444307932
- ISBN-13
- 9781444307931
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-01-19
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Authors
- Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Erich Goode
Description
Packed with new examples and material, this second edition providesa fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demiseof moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which theytake place. Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism,the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flagburning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the “sexslave” scare Includes a new chapter on the media, currently regarded as amajor component of the moral panic Devotes a chapter to addressing criticisms of the first editionas 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 andwider courses on deviance
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