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Making Sense of Moral PanicsThe Development of the Moral Panic Concept

Making Sense of Moral Panics: The Development of the Moral Panic Concept [Documents the emergence of the concept of moral panic via Cohen’s (Folk devils and moral panics, Paladin, Hertz, 1972) Folk devils and moral panics, Hall et al.’s (Policing the crisis: Mugging, the state, and law and order, MacMillan, London, 1978) Policing the crisis and Good and Ben-Yehuda’s (1994) Moral panics: The social construction of deviance. These three studies are the foundational studies which make up the ‘original project’ of panic. This chapter traces how each of the studies developed conceptual and theoretical understandings of panic from empirical data and argues that a transferable panic concept remains valuable, but that researchers need to move on from ‘ticking off’ stages and criteria.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Making Sense of Moral PanicsThe Development of the Moral Panic Concept

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-61820-3
Pages
15 –28
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-61821-0_2
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[Documents the emergence of the concept of moral panic via Cohen’s (Folk devils and moral panics, Paladin, Hertz, 1972) Folk devils and moral panics, Hall et al.’s (Policing the crisis: Mugging, the state, and law and order, MacMillan, London, 1978) Policing the crisis and Good and Ben-Yehuda’s (1994) Moral panics: The social construction of deviance. These three studies are the foundational studies which make up the ‘original project’ of panic. This chapter traces how each of the studies developed conceptual and theoretical understandings of panic from empirical data and argues that a transferable panic concept remains valuable, but that researchers need to move on from ‘ticking off’ stages and criteria.]

Published: Oct 7, 2017

Keywords: Moral Panic; Folk Devils; Original Project; Sense-making Phase; Clacton

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