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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |88 pages
The Making of a Myth
chapter |11 pages
Constructing Moral Panic
chapter |31 pages
Mugging Reality
part |92 pages
Progressive Panic
chapter |27 pages
Witch Hunts and Moral Enterprise
chapter |29 pages
A Very Nasty Business
chapter |34 pages
Who Needs Satan?
part |69 pages
The New Politics of Panic