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.
| ISBN: | 9781138952843 |
| Publication date: | 12th October 2015 |
| Author: | Bill SUNY Delhi, USA Thompson, Andy Williams |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 340 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Criminology |
| Genres: |
Causes and prevention of crime Social and cultural anthropology Legal history |