ABSTRACT

This study provides a comprehensive critique - forensic, historical, and theoretical - of the moral panic paradigm, using empirically grounded ethnographic research to argue that the panic paradigm suffers from fundamental flaws that make it a myth rather than a viable academic perspective.

chapter |27 pages

Introduction

Moral Panic for Dummies

part |88 pages

The Making of a Myth

part |92 pages

Progressive Panic

chapter |29 pages

A Very Nasty Business

chapter |34 pages

Who Needs Satan?

part |69 pages

The New Politics of Panic

chapter |31 pages

Streets of Fire

chapter |36 pages

Conclusion

Carry on Panicking