ISBN:
9781623568931
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (309 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Moral Panics in the Contemporary World
DDC:
175
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Moral Panics in the Contemporary World represents the best current theoretical and empirical work on the topic, taken from the international conference on moral panics held at Brunel University. The range of contributors, from established scholars to emerging ones in the field, and from a working journalist as well, helps to cover a wide range of moral panics, both old and new, and extend the geographical scope of moral panic analysis to previously underrepresented areas. Designed from the outset to comprise a coherent and integrated set of viewpoints which share a common engagement with criti
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1 Moral Panics in the ContemporaryWorld: Enduring Controversies and Future Directions; Defining concerns; Policing the concept: Orthodoxy, extension or revision?; Enduring controversies; Part One Rethinking Moral Panics; 2 The Cautionary Tale: A New Paradigm for Studying Media Coverage of Crime; Looking for a moral panic and finding a cautionary tale; Accounting for cautionary tales; Moral panics and cautionary tales as forms of moral regulation
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3 The Journalist, Folk DevilMoral panics and the media; The folk devils fight back; A deflating phrase; The missing voice; Changes in the media; Facts versus opinion; The audience; Disproportionality; Iconic and signal moments; Moral concern; Baby P: A case of moral panic?; Conclusion; 4 'Are We Insane?' The 'Video Nasty' Moral Panic; Video as threat; 'Populist guardians of public morality'; 'Ban the sadist videos'; The signification spiral; Nasties in context; The short-circuit of communication; Part Two Lifestyle, Risk and Health
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5 Theorizing Alcohol in Public Discourse: Moral Panics or Moral Regulation?Introduction; Theoretical background; Explaining the 'drink problem': Anxiety or discourse?; Episodes and processes: Is a synthesis necessary?; The moral inheritance of temperance; Conclusion; 6 Moral Panics, Governmentality and the Media: A Comparative Approach to the Analysis of Illegal Drug Use in the News; Introduction; Timeline; Mephedrone as moral panic; Mephedrone and governmentality; Conservative and neo-liberal approaches; Mephedrone and neo-liberal governmentality; Conclusion
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7 'He Who Buries the Little Girl Wins!' Moral Panics as Double Jeopardy: The Case of Rule of Rose*Double jeopardy; Regulatory background; The case: Rule of Rose; Discussion: The moral panic of Rule of Rose; Conclusion; Note on the players; Part Three Crime and Deviance; 8 From Media Hypes to Moral Panics: Theoretical and Methodological Tools; The two cases studies; Media coverage: The five stages; Goode and Ben-Yehuda's moral panic attributes reconsidered; The moral dimension; Conclusions; 9 Moral Panic and Ritual Abuse: Where's the Risk? Findings of an Ethnographic Research Study
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IntroductionThe Flat Village case; Methods; Results; Discussion; Conclusion; 10 The 'Chav' as Folk Devil; Introduction; Emergence and etymology; The creation of a folk devil; A contested public issue; Consequences; Conclusion; Part Four Immigration, War and Terror; 11 Moral Panic around the Burqa in France: An Eliasian Perspective; Introduction; The 'burqa affair' in France as an example of a moral panic; 'Thickening' the moral panic concept in an Eliasian perspective; Conclusion; 12 Elite Power and the Manufacture of a Moral Panic: The Case of the Dirty War in Argentina
Description / Table of Contents:
The process: Argentina's Dirty War
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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