Special Issue: Moral Panics
Moral Panics - 36 Years On
January 2009
Volume 49 Number 1
Editors: Nachman Ben-Yehuda and Pat Carlen
Foreword: Nachman Ben-Yehuda
‘How people struggle over the meaning of different conceptions of morality and social harm is also a central concern of criminology.’
Nachman Ben-Yehuda, from the Foreword
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Table of Contents
Moral Panics—36 Years On
by Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Moral Panic: Its Origins in Resistance, Ressentiment and The Translation of Fantasy in to Reality
by Jock Young
Widening the Focus: Moral Panics as Moral Regulation
by Chas Critcher
Failure To Launch: Why Do Some Social Issues Fail To Detonate Moral Panics?
by Philip Jenkins
Suite Revenge? The Shaping of Folk Devils and Moral Panics about White-Collar Crimes
by Michael Levi
Moral Panic and Neo-Liberalism: The Case of Single Mothers on Welfare in Israel
by Mimi Ajzenstadt
Legalizing Prostitution: Morality Politics in Western Australia
by Ronald Weitzer
Organized Evil and the Atlantic Alliance: Moral Panics and the Rhetoric of Organized Crime Policing in America and Britain
by Michael Woodiwiss and Dick Hobbs
The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour: Amoral Panics
by Stuart Waiton