Note: Front Matter , Contents , Contributors , Preface , Commentary: moral panics yesterday, today and tomorrow , Gender and the family , Introduction , Women and children first: contemporary Italian moral panics and the role of the state , Myths, monsters and legends: negotiating an acceptable working-class femininity in a marginalised and demonised Welsh locale , Making a moral panic: ‘feral families’, family violence and welfare reforms in New Zealand. Doing the work of the state? , The wrong type of mother: moral panic and teenage parenting , Amoral panic: the fall of the autonomous family and the rise of ‘early intervention’ , Afterword: when panic meets practice , Moral panics in our time? Childhood and youth , Introduction , Child protection and moral panic , Unearthing melodrama: moral panic theory and the enduring characterisation of child trafficking , Lost childhood? , Internet risk research and child sexual abuse: a misdirected moral panic? , The Rotherham abuse scandal , Afterword , The state , Introduction , Children and internet pornography: a moral panic, a salvation for censors and Trojan horse for government colonisation of the digital frontier , Internet radicalisation and the ‘Woolwich Murder’ , Moralising discourse and the dialectical formation of class identities: the social reaction to ‘chavs’ in Britain , The presence of the absent parent: troubled families and the England ‘riots’ of 2011 , Patient safety: a moral panic , Afterword , Moral regulation , Introduction , The moral crusade against paedophilia , Animal welfare, morals and faith in the ‘religious slaughter’ debate , From genuine to sham marriage: moral panic and the ‘authenticity’ of relationships , Integration, exclusion and the moral ‘othering’ of Roma migrant communities in Britain , Assisted dying: moral panic or moral issue? , Afterword: the moral in moral panics , Moral panics and beyond , Index , In English