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Revisiting Moral Panics

Viviene E Cree, Viviene E. Cree, Gary Clapton, and Mark Smith

Abstract

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 responses to them, through the concept of moral panic. Revisiting Moral Panics begins with a commentary by Charles Critcher followed by twenty four contributions from both well-known and up-and-coming researchers and practitioners that address panics ranging from those surrounding t ... More

Keywords: moral panics, gender, family, moral regulation, childhood, youth, the state

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2015 Print ISBN-13: 9781447321859
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2016 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447321859.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Viviene E Cree, editor
University of Edinburgh, UK

Viviene E. Cree, editor
University of Edinburgh, UK

Gary Clapton, editor
University of Edinburgh, UK

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Contributors

Preface

Commentary

Part One Gender and the family

Edited by Viviene E. Cree

Introduction

Viviene E. Cree

One Women and children first

Morena Tartari

Two Myths, monsters and legends

Dawn Mannay

Three Making a moral panic

Liz Beddoe

Four The wrong type of mother

Sally Brown

Five Amoral panic

Stuart Waiton

Afterword

Maggie Mellon

Part Two Moral panics in our time? Childhood and youth

Edited by Gary Clapton

Introduction

Gary Clapton

Six Child protection and moral panic

Ian Butler

Seven Unearthing melodrama

Joanne Westwood

Eight Lost childhood?

Kay Tisdall

Nine Internet risk research and child sexual abuse

Ethel Quayle

Ten The Rotherham abuse scandal

Anneke Meyer

Afterword

Mark Hardy

Part Three The state

Edited by Viviene E. Cree

Introduction

Viviene E. Cree

Eleven Children and internet pornography

Jim Greer

Twelve Internet radicalisation and the ‘Woolwich Murder’

David McKendrick

Thirteen Moralising discourse and the dialectical formation of class identities

Elias le Grand

Fourteen The presence of the absent parent

Steve Kirkwood

Fifteen Patient safety

William James Fear

Afterword

Neil Hume

Part Four Moral regulation

Edited by Mark Smith

Introduction

Mark Smith

Sixteen The moral crusade against paedophilia

Frank Furedi

Seventeen Animal welfare, morals and faith in the ‘religious slaughter’ debate

David Grumett

Eighteen From genuine to sham marriage

Michaela Benson and Katharine Charsley

Nineteen Integration, exclusion and the moral ‘othering’ of Roma migrant communities in Britain

Colin Clark

Twenty Assisted dying

Malcolm Payne

Afterword

Heather Lynch

Moral panics and beyond

Mark Smith, Gary Clapton and Viviene E. Cree

End Matter

Index