Revisiting Moral Panics

Commentary - Charles Critcher; Preface - Viviene E. Cree, Gary Clapton & Mark Smith; Part 1: Gender and the Family; Introduction - Viviene E. Cree; 1. Women and children first. Contemporary Italian moral panics and the role of the state - Morena Tartari; 2. Myths, monsters and legends: negotiating an acceptable working class femininity in a marginalised and demonised Welsh locale - Dawn Mannay; 3. Making a moral panic - 'Feral families', family violence and welfare reforms in New Zealand: Doing the work of the state? - Liz Beddoe; 4. The wrong type of mother: moral panic and teenage parenting - Sally Brown; 5. Amoral panic: The fall of the autonomous family and the rise of 'early intervention' - Stuart Waiton; Afterword - Maggie Mellon; Part II: Young People, Children and Childhood; Introduction - Gary Clapton; 1. Child protection and moral panic - Ian Butler; 2. Unearthing Melodrama: Moral Panic Theory and the Enduring Characterisation of Child Trafficking - Joanne Westwood; 3. Lost childhood? - Kay Tisdall; 4. Internet risk research and child sexual abuse: a misdirected moral panic? - Ethel Quayle; 5. The Rotherham Abuse Scandal - Anneke Meyer; Afterword - Mark Hardy; Part III The State, Government and Citizens; 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 Fear; Afterword - Neil Hume; Part IV: Moral Crusades, Moral Regulation and Morality; Introduction - Mark Smith; 1. The Moral Crusade Against Paedophilia - Frank Furedi; 2. Animal Welfare, Morals and Faith in the 'Religious Slaughter' Debate - David Grumett; 3. From genuine to sham marriage: Moral panic and the 'authenticity' of relationships - Michaela Benson & Katharine Charsley; 4. Integration, Exclusion and the Moral 'Othering' of Roma Migrant Communities in Britain - Colin Clark; 5. Assisted Dying: Moral Panic or Moral Issue? - Malcolm Payne; Afterword: Heather Lynch; Conclusion - Viviene E. Cree, Gary Clapton & Mark Smith