The State

by Viviene E. Cree (Editor)

Overview

Many of the individual and social problems that are characterised as moral panics are, in reality, illustrations of a breakdown in the legitimacy of the state. This Byte picks up a number of case-study examples - internet pornography; internet radicalisation; ‘chavs’; the Tottenham riots; patient safety - and explores each through the lens of moral panic ideas, with an appraisal of the work of Stuart Hall, one of the key thinkers in moral panics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447321996
Publisher:	Policy Press
Publication date:	06/30/2015
Series:	Moral Panics in Theory and Practice
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	88
File size:	579 KB

About the Author

Viviene E. Cree is Professor of Social Work Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is a qualified youth and community worker and social worker, and has written and researched extensively on social work.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Viviene E. Cree; 1. Children and Internet Pornography: A Moral Panic, a Salvation for Censors and Trojan Horse for Government Colonisation of the Digital Frontier - Jim Greer; 2. Internet Radicalisation and the ‘Woolwich Murder’ - David McKendrick; 3. Moralising discourse and the dialectical formation of class identities: The social reaction to 'Chavs' in Britain - Elias Le Grand; 4. The presence of the absent parent: Troubled families and the England ‘riots’ of 2011 - Steve Kirkwood; 5. Patient Safety: A moral panic - William James Fear Afterword - Neil Hume