Moral Panics
The Social Construction of Deviance
2. Edition August 2009
320 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
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. Also included is a new chapter on the media, currently regarded as a major component of the moral panic, and a chapter critiquing criticisms of the first edition and the moral panics concept itself.
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
Prologue.
1. Enter the Moral Panic.
2. The Moral Panic: An Introduction.
3. Three Theories of the Moral Panic.
4. The Moral Panic Meets Its Critics.
5. The Media Ignite and Embody the Moral Panic.
6. Deviance, Morality, and Criminal Law.
7. Collective Behavior.
8. Social Movements.
9. Social Problems.
10. The Renaissance Witch Craze.
11. Drug Abuse Panics.
12. The Feminist Anti-Pornography Crusade.
Epilogue: The Demise and Institutionalization of the Moral Panic.
References.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
Nachman Ben-Yehuda is Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications include Deviance and Moral Boundaries (1985), The Politics and Morality of Deviance (1990), Political Assassinations by Jews: A Rhetorical Device for Justice (1993), The Masada Myth (1995), Betrayals and Treason (2001), and Selective Remembrances (edited with Philip Kohl and Mara Kozelsky, 2007).
