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Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which they take place. * Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism, the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flag burning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the "sex slave" scare* Includes a new chapter on the media, currently regarded as a major component of the moral panic* Devotes a chapter to addressing criticisms of the first edition as well as the moral panics concept itself* Written by long-established experts in the field* Designed to fit both self-contained courses on moral panics and wider courses on deviance

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Moral Panics 2e - The Social Construction of Deviance
• Author: Erich Goode, Nachman Ben-Yehuda
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9781405189347
• ISBN: 1405189347
• ID: 04956379
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Weight: 618 g
• Dimensions: 244 × 181 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. August 2009

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