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Moral Panics in the Contemporary World.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (310 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781623562090
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302.23
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Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1 Moral Panics in the Contemporary World: Enduring Controversies and Future Directions -- Defining concerns -- Policing the concept: Orthodoxy, extension or revision? -- Enduring controversies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 1: Rethinking Moral Panics -- 2 The Cautionary Tale: A New Paradigm for Studying Media Coverage of Crime -- Looking for a moral panic and finding a cautionary tale -- Accounting for cautionary tales -- Moral panics and cautionary tales as forms of moral regulation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 The Journalist, Folk Devil -- Moral panics and the media -- The folk devils fight back -- A deflating phrase -- The missing voice -- Changes in the media -- Facts versus opinion -- The audience -- Disproportionality -- Iconic and signal moments -- Moral concern -- Baby P: A case of moral panic? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 'Are We Insane?' The 'Video Nasty' Moral Panic -- Video as threat -- 'Populist guardians of public morality' -- 'Ban the sadist videos' -- The signification spiral -- Nasties in context -- The short-circuit of communication -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 2: Lifestyle, Risk and Health -- 5 Theorizing Alcohol in Public Discourse: Moral Panics or Moral Regulation? -- Introduction -- Theoretical background -- Explaining the 'drink problem': Anxiety or discourse? -- Episodes and processes: Is a synthesis necessary? -- The moral inheritance of temperance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 Moral Panics, Governmentality and the Media: A Comparative Approach to the Analysis of Illegal Drug Use in the News -- Introduction -- Timeline -- Mephedrone as moral panic -- Mephedrone and governmentality -- Conservative and neo-liberal approaches.
Mephedrone and neo-liberal governmentality -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7 'He Who Buries the Little Girl Wins!' Moral Panics as Double Jeopardy: Th e Case of Rule of Rose -- Double jeopardy -- Regulatory background -- The case: Rule of Rose -- Discussion: The moral panic of Rule of Rose -- Conclusion -- Note on the players -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Video Games -- Part 3: Crime and Deviance -- 8 From Media Hypes to Moral Panics: Theoretical and Methodological Tools -- The two cases studies -- Media coverage: The five stages -- Goode and Ben-Yehuda's moral panic attributes reconsidered -- The moral dimension -- Conclusions -- Note -- Bibliography -- 9 Moral Panic and Ritual Abuse: Where's the Risk? Findings of an Ethnographic Research Study -- Introduction -- The Flat Village case -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 10 The 'Chav' as Folk Devil -- Introduction -- Emergence and etymology -- The creation of a folk devil -- A contested public issue -- Consequences -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part 4: Immigration, War and Terror -- 11 Moral Panic around the Burqa in France: An Eliasian Perspective -- Introduction -- The 'burqa affair' in France as an example of a moral panic -- 'Thickening' the moral panic concept in an Eliasian perspective -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 12 Elite Power and the Manufacture of a Moral Panic: The Case of the Dirty War in Argentina -- The process: Argentina's Dirty War -- Isolation -- The saviors of Western Christendom -- How to manufacture a moral panic -- The media -- The church -- State terror -- The Manichaean world -- Metaphor and miasma -- Note -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1 Moral Panics in the Contemporary World: Enduring Controversies and Future Directions -- Defining concerns -- Policing the concept: Orthodoxy, extension or revision? -- Enduring controversies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 1: Rethinking Moral Panics -- 2 The Cautionary Tale: A New Paradigm for Studying Media Coverage of Crime -- Looking for a moral panic and finding a cautionary tale -- Accounting for cautionary tales -- Moral panics and cautionary tales as forms of moral regulation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 The Journalist, Folk Devil -- Moral panics and the media -- The folk devils fight back -- A deflating phrase -- The missing voice -- Changes in the media -- Facts versus opinion -- The audience -- Disproportionality -- Iconic and signal moments -- Moral concern -- Baby P: A case of moral panic? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 'Are We Insane?' The 'Video Nasty' Moral Panic -- Video as threat -- 'Populist guardians of public morality' -- 'Ban the sadist videos' -- The signification spiral -- Nasties in context -- The short-circuit of communication -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 2: Lifestyle, Risk and Health -- 5 Theorizing Alcohol in Public Discourse: Moral Panics or Moral Regulation? -- Introduction -- Theoretical background -- Explaining the 'drink problem': Anxiety or discourse? -- Episodes and processes: Is a synthesis necessary? -- The moral inheritance of temperance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 Moral Panics, Governmentality and the Media: A Comparative Approach to the Analysis of Illegal Drug Use in the News -- Introduction -- Timeline -- Mephedrone as moral panic -- Mephedrone and governmentality -- Conservative and neo-liberal approaches.

Mephedrone and neo-liberal governmentality -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7 'He Who Buries the Little Girl Wins!' Moral Panics as Double Jeopardy: Th e Case of Rule of Rose -- Double jeopardy -- Regulatory background -- The case: Rule of Rose -- Discussion: The moral panic of Rule of Rose -- Conclusion -- Note on the players -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Video Games -- Part 3: Crime and Deviance -- 8 From Media Hypes to Moral Panics: Theoretical and Methodological Tools -- The two cases studies -- Media coverage: The five stages -- Goode and Ben-Yehuda's moral panic attributes reconsidered -- The moral dimension -- Conclusions -- Note -- Bibliography -- 9 Moral Panic and Ritual Abuse: Where's the Risk? Findings of an Ethnographic Research Study -- Introduction -- The Flat Village case -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 10 The 'Chav' as Folk Devil -- Introduction -- Emergence and etymology -- The creation of a folk devil -- A contested public issue -- Consequences -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part 4: Immigration, War and Terror -- 11 Moral Panic around the Burqa in France: An Eliasian Perspective -- Introduction -- The 'burqa affair' in France as an example of a moral panic -- 'Thickening' the moral panic concept in an Eliasian perspective -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 12 Elite Power and the Manufacture of a Moral Panic: The Case of the Dirty War in Argentina -- The process: Argentina's Dirty War -- Isolation -- The saviors of Western Christendom -- How to manufacture a moral panic -- The media -- The church -- State terror -- The Manichaean world -- Metaphor and miasma -- Note -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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