We live in a world that is increasingly characterised as full of risk, danger and threat. Every day a new social issue emerges to assail our sensibilities and consciences. Drawing on the popular Economic Social and Research Council (ESRC) seminar series, this book examines these social issues and anxieties, and the solutions to them, through the concept of moral panic.
With a commentary by Charles Critcher and contributions from both well-known and up-and-coming researchers and practitioners, this is a stimulating and innovative overview of moral panic ideas, which will be an essential resource.
| ISBN: | 9781447321866 |
| Publication date: | 15th June 2016 |
| Author: | Viviene E Cree, Gary Clapton, Mark Smith |
| Publisher: | Policy Press an imprint of Bristol University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 316 pages |
| Series: | Moral Panics in Theory and Practice |
| Genres: |
Social services and welfare, criminology Sociology |