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Moral panics : the social construction of deviance (2nd ed)

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Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which they take place. Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism, the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flag burning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the “sex slave” scareIncludes a new chapter on the media, currently regarded as a major component of the moral panicDevotes a chapter to addressing criticisms of the first edition as well as the moral panics concept itselfWritten by long-established experts in the fieldDesigned to fit both self-contained courses on moral panics and wider courses on deviance

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Wiley-Blackwell
1405189339 / 9781405189330
Paperback / softback
302.17
21/08/2009
United States
English
xi, 299 p. : ill., port
25 cm
Previous ed.: Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.