List of illustrations Acknowledgements Contributors 1.Moral Panics in the Contemporary World: Enduring Controversies and Future Directions Amanda Rohloff, Julian Petley, Jason Hughes, and Chas Critcher Part 1: Rethinking Moral Panics 2.The Cautionary Tale: A New Paradigm for Studying Media Coverage of Crime Sarah E.H. Moore 3.The Journalist, Folk Devil Paul Lashmar 4.‘Are We Insane?’ The ‘Video Nasty’ Moral Panic Julian Petley Part 2: Lifestyle, Risk and Health 5.Theorising Alcohol in Public Discourse: Moral Panics or Moral Regulation? Henry Yeomans 6.Moral Panics, Governmentality and the Media: A Comparative Approach to the Analysis of Illegal Drug Use in the News Jeremy Collins 7.‘He Who Buries the Little Girl Wins!’ Moral Panics as Double Jeopardy: The Case of Rule of Rose Elisabeth Staksrud and Jørgen Kirksæther Part 3: Crime and Deviance 8.From Media Hypes to Moral Panics: Theoretical and Methodological Tools Marcello Maneri 9.Moral Panic and Paedophilia: Where’s the Risk? Morena Tartari 10.Creating a Folk Devil: The Moral Panic over ‘Chavs’ Elias le Grand Part 4: Immigration, War and Terror 11.Moral Panic around the Burqa in France: An Eliasian Perspective Aurélie Lacassagne 12.Elite Power and the Manufacture of a Moral Panic: The Case of the Dirty War in Argentina John Oplinger, Richard Talbot and Yasin Aktay Index

Moral Panics in the Contemporary World offers its readers a systematic, ecumenical introduction to the concept, an argument for its universal applicability, and an assortment of apposite, cross-cultural case studies. It's difficult to come up with a more engaging and illuminating entry into the topic.