Moral panics in the contemporary world

This title represents the best current theoretical and empirical work on moral panic in the contemporary world, taken from the international conference on moral panics held at Brunel University in December 2010. The range of contributors, from established scholars to emerging ones in the field, and from a working journalist as well, helps to cover a wide range of moral panics, both old and new, and extend the geographical scope of moral panic analysis to previously underrepresented areas.

Moral Panics in the Contemporary World: Enduring Controversies and Future Directions / Amanda Rohloff, Julian Petley, Jason Hughes, and Chas Critcher -- Rethinking Moral Panics. The Cautionary Tale: A New Paradigm for Studying Media Coverage of Crime / Sarah E.H. Moore -- The Journalist, Folk Devil / Paul Lashmar -- "Are we insane"? the "video nasty" moral panic / Julian Petley -- Lifestyle, Risk and Health. Theorising Alcohol in Public Discourse: Moral Panics or Moral Regulation? / Henry Yeomans -- Moral Panics, Governmentality and the Media: A Comparative Approach to the Analysis of Illegal Drug Use in the News / Jeremy Collins -- "He Who Buries the Little Girl Wins!" Moral Panics as Double Jeopardy: The Case of Rule of Rose / Elisabeth Staksrud and Jorgen Kirksather -- Crime and Deviance. From Media Hypes to Moral Panics: Theoretical and Methodological Tools / Marcello Maneri -- Moral Panic and Paedophilia: Where'sthe Risk? Findings of an Ethnographic Research Study / Morena Tartari -- The "chav" as Folk Devil / Elias Le Grand -- Immigration, War and Terror. Moral Panic around the Burqa in France: an Eliasian Perspective / Aurelie Lacassagne -- Elite Power and the Manufacture o…