A01=Andy Williams
A01=Bill Thompson
Author_Andy Williams
Author_Bill Thompson
Black Mugger
Bristol Evening Post
Category=JHMC
Category=JKVC
Contemporary Societies
criminology research
critique of moral panic paradigm
cultural sociology
De Young
Descriptive Panics
deviance theory
devil
ects
eff
enterprise
entrepreneur
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eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
ethnographic analysis
folk
Folk Devils
Generic Panics
Implant False Memories
mary
media influence studies
Moral Enterprise
Moral Panic
Panic Paradigm
paradigm
Resort Town
Risk Panics
Salem Village
satanic
Satanic Abuse
Satanic Cases
Satanic Panic
Sex Offender
Sex Shop
Sex Stores
social control mechanisms
Tv Show
UK Asian
UK Chapter
UK Press
Video Nasties
whitehouse
Product details
- ISBN 9781138952843
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Oct 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This study provides a comprehensive critique - forensic, historical, and theoretical - of the moral panic paradigm, using empirically grounded ethnographic research to argue that the panic paradigm suffers from fundamental flaws that make it a myth rather than a viable academic perspective.
Bill Thompson is a sociologist from the UK, where he was a Practicing Associate of the British Academy of Experts, and taught at Cambridge, Essex, and Reading Universities. In 2004, he relocated to the USA, where he has worked with the local Teamsters Union Chapter while teaching at SUNY and Hartwick Colleges.
Andy Williams is Principal Lecturer & Course Leader in BSc (Hons) Criminology and Forensics at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth.
