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Revisiting moral panics /
We live in a world that is increasingly characterized as risky, dangerous, and threatening. Every day, a new social issue emerges to assail our sensibilities and consciences, seemingly designed to provoke a shared sense of panic. This text uses the concept of moral panic to examine these social issu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Moral panics in theory and practice.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- REVISITING MORAL PANICS; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Moral panics and social work; A particular moment in the history of moral panics?; The book; Commentary: moral panics yesterday, today and tomorrow1; Introduction: mapping the field; Cohen's processual model; Goode and Ben-Yehuda's attributional model; Comparing the two models; Accumulated knowledge on five topic clusters; Moral panics in time and space; Criticisms of moral panic analysis; New directions; Conclusion; Introduction; Stanley Cohen; Content of Part One
- 1. Women and children first: contemporary Italian moral panics and the role of the stateIntroduction; The approach used in my study; Child abuse and femicide as moral panics; Key aspects of the child abuse and femicide moral panics in contemporary Italy; Helping the weak: the rhetoric of the state close to citizens; Conclusion: the 'polite state' model; 2. Myths, monsters and legends: negotiating an acceptable working-class femininity in a marginalised and demonised Welsh locale; Introduction; Moral panics and folk devils: contemporary representations
- Spatial folk devils: place, space and stigma in urban South WalesDiscussion; Conclusion; 3. Making a moral panic: 'feral families', family violence and welfare reforms in New Zealand. Doing the work of the state?; Introduction ; Framing of the poor; The folk devil: the construct of 'feral Maori families'; Conclusions; 4. The wrong type of mother: moral panic and teenage parenting; Introduction; Teenage parenting as a moral panic; Evidence from research; Conclusions; 5. Amoral panic: the fall of the autonomous family and the rise of 'early intervention'; Introduction
- The rise and rise of 'early intervention'The autonomous family; The end of autonomy; Amoral anxiety; Conclusion; Afterword: when panic meets practice; Introduction; Geoffrey Pearson; Content of Part Two; 6. Child protection and moral panic; Introduction; Learning from our mistakes; Scandals; Peter Connelly and the politics of neoliberalism; Conclusion; 7. Unearthing melodrama: moral panic theory and the enduring characterisation of child trafficking; Introduction; What makes this a moral panic?; Scale of the problem and proportionality of the response; The conditions in which it took place
- Folk devilsClaims makers and moral entrepreneurs; Consequences of the moral panic about child trafficking; Discussion; Conclusion; 8. Lost childhood?; Introduction; Stages to moral panics; Moral entrepreneurs; The morality within the trope; Conclusion; 9. Internet risk research and child sexual abuse: a misdirected moral panic?; 10. The Rotherham abuse scandal; Introduction; The Rotherham abuse scandal and moral panic theory; Discussion and conclusion: the Rotherham scandal, the media and social work; Afterword; Introduction; Stuart Hall; Content of Part Three