The Myth of Moral Panics: Sex, Snuff, and Satan

By Bill Thompson and Andy Williams

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415812666
• ISBN13: 9780415812665
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"