Moral Panics in the Contemporary World
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Chas Critcher is Visiting Professor in Media and Communications at Swansea University and Emeritus Professor of Communications at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Jason Hughes is Professor of sociology at the University of Leicester, UK. Amanda Rohloff is a PhD Candidate in Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Brunel University, UK. Julian Petley is Professor of Journalism and Screen Media, School of Arts, Brunel University, UK.<i>Moral Panics in the Contemporary World</i> offers its readers a systematic, ecumenical introduction to the concept, an argument for its universal applicability, and an assortment of apposite, cross-cultural case studies. It's difficult to come up with a more engaging and illuminating entry into the topic.
- Erich Goode, Emeritus Professor, Stony Brook University and coauthor of Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance,
<i>Moral Panics in the Contemporary World</i> is a welcome addition to the field, detailing its widespread horizons, comparative perspective, applying the moral panic conceptualization to new topics, critical assessment of the field, suggestions for some new thinking and a fresh look on some classical issues in the field.
- Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel,