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Moral Panics in Theory and Practice

There is considerable interest in the concept of moral panic within and outside academia. This innovative collection brings together academics, researchers, policy makers and practitioners to explore a range of twenty-first century social issues and anxieties.

Appealing to a wide international audience, it explores the implications of moral panics for policy and practice in agencies that are liable to their damaging consequences, helping to build a critically aware, tolerant and open society.

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Childhood and Youth

Edited by Gary Clapton

Addresses moralising within discourses of childhood and youth and asks how we might do things differently.

Gender and Family

Edited by Viviene E. Cree

The State

Edited by Viviene E. Cree

Through case-study examples this Byte explores individual and social problems that are characterised as moral panics.

Moral Regulation

Edited by Mark Smith

This byte teases out some of the fundamentally moral questions that continue to perplex us, about life and death, good and evil, and sex and the body.

Revisiting Moral Panics

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

Drawing on the popular Economic Social and Research Council (ESRC) seminar series, this book examines social issues and anxieties, and the solutions to them, through the concept of moral panic.