Overview

Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which they take place.
  • Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism, the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flag burning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the "sex slave" scare
  • Includes a new chapter on the media, currently regarded as a major component of the moral panic
  • Devotes a chapter to addressing criticisms of the first edition as 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 and wider courses on deviance
ISBN-13

9781405189347

ISBN-10

1405189347

Weight

1.60 Pounds

Dimensions

7.10 x 1.00 x 10.00 In

List Price

$138.95

Edition

2nd Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

312 pages

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Published On

2009-09-08


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