Many of the individual and social problems that are characterised as moral panics are, in reality, illustrations of a breakdown in the legitimacy of the state. This Byte picks up a number of case-study examples - internet pornography; internet radicalisation; ‘chavs’; the Tottenham riots; patient safety - and explores each through the lens of moral panic ideas, with an appraisal of the work of Stuart Hall, one of the key thinkers in moral panics.
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Through case-study examples this Byte explores individual and social problems that are characterised as moral panics.

Introduction - Viviene E. Cree;

1. Children and Internet Pornography: A Moral Panic, a Salvation for Censors and Trojan Horse for Government Colonisation of the Digital Frontier - Jim Greer;

2. Internet Radicalisation and the ‘Woolwich Murder’ - David McKendrick;

3. Moralising discourse and the dialectical formation of class identities: The social reaction to 'Chavs' in Britain - Elias Le Grand;

4. The presence of the absent parent: Troubled families and the England ‘riots’ of 2011 - Steve Kirkwood;

5. Patient Safety: A moral panic - William James Fear

Afterword - Neil Hume

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ISBN
9781447321972
Publisert
2015-06-30
Utgiver
Bristol University Press
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Biografisk notat

Viviene E. Cree is Professor of Social Work Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is a qualified youth and community worker and social worker, and has written and researched extensively on social work.