The Ashgate Research Companion to Moral Panics

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Moral Panic Concept (Charles Krinsky)

Part I The Evolution of The Moral Panic Concept

Overview

1. The Genealogy and Trajectory of the Moral Panic Concept (Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda)

2. Tracking Moral Panic as a Concept (Toby Miller)

3. Assemblages of Moral Politics: Yesterday and Today (Alan Hunt)

4. The Problems with Moral Panic: The Concept’s Limitations (Joel Best)

PART II SEX PANICS

Overview

5. Public Punitiveness, Mediation, and Expertise in Sexual Psychopath Policies (Chrysanthi S. Leon and John J. Brent)

6. Revelation and Cardinals’ Sins: Moral Panic over "Pedophile Priests" in the United States (Pamela D. Schultz)

7. The Demise of the Same Sex Marriage Panic in Massachusetts (Jaime McCauley)

8. Considering the Agency of Folk Devils (Mary DeYoung)

PART III MEDIA PANICS

Overview

9. From Nickel Madness to the House of Dreams: Moral Panic and the Emergence of American Cinema (Charles Krinsky)

10. Sexual Predators, Internet Addiction, and Other Media Myths: Moral Panic and the Disappearance of Brandon Crisp (Patricia Molloy)

11. MyMoralPanic: Adolescents, Social Networking, and Child Sex Crime Panic (Samantha A. Smith and Simon A. Cole)

PART IV MORAL PANICS OVER CHILDREN AND YOUTH

Overview

12. Moral Panics and the Young: The James Bulger Murder, 1993 (Máire Messenger Davies)

13. Children Pushed Aside: Moral Panic over the Family and the State in Contemporary Poland (Magdalena Rek-Woźniak and Wojciech Woźniak)

14. Moral Panics versus Youth Problem Debates: Three Conceptual Insights from the Study of Japanese Youth (Tuukka Toivonen)

PART V MORAL PANICS AND GOVERNANCE

Overview

15. Governing Through Moral Panic: The Governmental Uses of Fear (Willem Schinkel)

16. Hidden in Plain Sight: Moral Panics and the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro (Natália De’ Carli and Mariano Pérez Humanes)

17. Intermedia Agenda Setting and the Construction of Moral Panics: On the Media and Policy Influence of Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic (Bryan E. Denham)

18. I Vote and I Tote: Moral Panics, Resistance, and the Failure of Quiet Regulation (Grazyna Zajdow)

19. Is This One It? Viral Moral Panics (Sheldon Ungar)

PART VI THE FUTURE OF THE MORAL PANIC CONCEPT

Overview

20. A Missing Dimension: The Social Psychology of Moral Panics (Chas Critcher and Julia Pearce)

21. Cultural Trauma and Moral Panic: 9/11 and the Mosque at Ground Zero Affair (Kenneth Thompson)

22. Moral Panics over the Environment? "Climate Crisis" and the Moral Panics Model (Amanda Rohloff)

23. Practicing Moral Panic Research: A Hybrid Model with Guidelines for Its Application (Brian V. Klocke and Glenn W. Muschert)

Appendix I: Alternative Thematizations for Classroom Use and Course

Reading Lists

Appendix II Moral Panic: A Bibliography

Index