Moral Panics in the Contemporary World

Chas Critcher is Visiting Professor in Media and Communications at Swansea University and Emeritus Professor of Communications at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.Jason Hughes is Professor of sociology at the University of Leicester, UK.Amanda Rohloff is a PhD Candidate in Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Brunel University, UK.Julian Petley is Professor of Journalism and Screen Media, School of Arts, Brunel University, UK.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsContributors1.Moral Panics in the Contemporary World: Enduring Controversies and Future DirectionsAmanda Rohloff, Julian Petley, Jason Hughes, and Chas CritcherPart 1: Rethinking Moral Panics2.The Cautionary Tale: A New Paradigm for Studying Media Coverage of CrimeSarah E.H. Moore3.The Journalist, Folk DevilPaul Lashmar4.‘Are We Insane?’ The ‘Video Nasty’ Moral PanicJulian PetleyPart 2: Lifestyle, Risk and Health 5.Theorising Alcohol in Public Discourse: Moral Panics or Moral Regulation?Henry Yeomans6.Moral Panics, Governmentality and the Media: A Comparative Approach to the Analysis of Illegal Drug Use in the NewsJeremy Collins7.‘He Who Buries the Little Girl Wins!’ Moral Panics as Double Jeopardy: The Case of Rule of RoseElisabeth Staksrud and Jørgen KirksætherPart 3: Crime and Deviance8.From Media Hypes to Moral Panics: Theoretical and Methodological ToolsMarcello Maneri9.Moral Panic and Paedophilia: Where’s the Risk? Morena Tartari10.Creating a Folk Devil: The Moral Panic over ‘Chavs’Elias le GrandPart 4: Immigration, War and Terror 11.Moral Panic around the Burqa in France: An Eliasian PerspectiveAurélie Lacassagne12.Elite Power and the Manufacture of a Moral Panic: The Case of the Dirty War in ArgentinaJohn Oplinger, Richard Talbot and Yasin AktayIndex

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.