...In this chapter the focus is the emotions of disgust and contempt that are discernible in newspaper accounts of the mothers, families and communities of children who die from extreme abuse or neglect. Drawing on critical moral panic theory, the chapter argues that media coverage reflects wider...

... disputing ‘the moral necessity of austerity’. Is this reaction to the economic crisis justified – or prompted by a moral panic whereby the manufacture of a consensus view seems to preclude the possibility of any alternative? Rather than speculate on the present situation, this paper reviews what happened...

... or ‘toughening up’, including stabbing and scalding Figure 3.1 Vicious circle of demand and supply of status dogs This chapter provides a definition of status dog; a term first identified in 2007. Media roles are addressed and consideration given to the concept of moral panic. This is also reviewed in terms...

... provided for dismantling clusters. Several arguments on dispersal are provided, as well as a suggestion that dispersal may be a response to a ‘moral panic’ within the indigenous population about the extent to which it feels it is losing its ability to maintain the purity of space. The chapter ends...

... of State for Social Services Griffiths Hall S moral panics Policing the Crisis Hall et al Schwarz Isabel ‘Spokes Inquiry’ Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Care and Aftercare of Sharon Campbell DHSS ‘Baby P’ Balls Ed Birmingham ‘black crime’ Cameron David deindustrialisation Heath...

... of community care in the 1980s and 1990s. It argues that a moral panic led to the introduction of more restrictive policies and a focus on risk. asylums community care psychiatry social control Filer N risk and risk management schizophrenia The Shock of the Fall social work contemporary mental health...

... on the problematisation of alcohol and attempts to regulate drinking will yield more satisfactory explanations. binge drinking crime and disorder Europe comparisons across France international comparisons Licensing Act 2003 moral panics public discourse Russia Blair Tony consumption levels national public...

...Recent years have witnessed a focus on cases of ‘street-grooming’. The purpose of this chapter, primarily, is not to look at the complexities of child abuse (though, this is touched upon) but the way this has become a ‘moral panic’ that has focused on the ‘alien’ culture of Pakistani Muslim men...

... marginalisation occurs in the micro-interactions of the mundane, and relate their findings to the wider competing discourses of risk and marginality. moral panic public space disruptive use of resistance Cannella G conflict Erikson E H O’Sullivan Kevin Prout A and James A Robinson C social competence...