Moral panics / Kenneth Thompson.

By:

Thompson, Kenneth, 1937-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Key ideasPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 157 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0203980905
9780203980903
9780415119771
0415119774
9780415119764
0415119766
1134811624
9781134811625
1280139080
9781280139086
9786610139088
6610139083
1134811616
9781134811618

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Moral panics.DDC classification:

302.5/42 21

LOC classification:

HM291 .T46 1998eb

Other classification:

71.65
77.60

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Contents:

1. 'Why the panic?' : the topicality of the concept of moral panics -- 2. The classic moral panic : mods and rockers -- 3. Moral panics about youth -- 4. Moral panic about mugging -- 5. Moral panics about sex and AIDS -- 6. Family, children and violence -- 7. Female violence and girl gangs -- 8. Moral panics about sex on the screen.

Summary: "This concise guide presents and compares the various different approaches that have been adopted in studies of moral panics and integrates concepts such as 'risk' which have been developed in related fields. With the increasing number of moral panics in recent years triggered by incidents such as the Bulger child murder by other children and the spread of AIDS, this book examines their wider significance, particularly in terms of the functioning of the mass media." "In this book, Kenneth Thompson traces the developments in moral panic studies and also reintroduces some of the initial broader relevance of this field by treating moral panics not simply as separate episodes but in relation to systems of representation and regulation, and as symptoms of wider social and cultural tensions."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-148) and indexes.

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"This concise guide presents and compares the various different approaches that have been adopted in studies of moral panics and integrates concepts such as 'risk' which have been developed in related fields. With the increasing number of moral panics in recent years triggered by incidents such as the Bulger child murder by other children and the spread of AIDS, this book examines their wider significance, particularly in terms of the functioning of the mass media." "In this book, Kenneth Thompson traces the developments in moral panic studies and also reintroduces some of the initial broader relevance of this field by treating moral panics not simply as separate episodes but in relation to systems of representation and regulation, and as symptoms of wider social and cultural tensions."--Jacket

English.

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