Moral Panics 2E - The Social Construction Of Deviance

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

Erich Goode is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His previous books include The Marijuana Smokers (1970), Collective Behavior (1992), Deviance in Everyday Life (2002), Extreme Deviance (edited with Angus Vail, 2008), Drugs in American Society (7th edition, 2008), and Deviant Behavior (8th edition, 2008).
Nachman Ben-Yehuda is Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications include Deviance and Moral Boundaries (1985), The Politics and Morality of Deviance (1990), Political Assassinations by Jews: A Rhetorical Device for Justice (1993), The Masada Myth (1995), Betrayals and Treason (2001), and Selective Remembrances (edited with Philip Kohl and Mara Kozelsky, 2007).

"This close reading of the facts behind a media story are the essence of Goode and Ben-Yehuda's work. They have taken the time and trouble to try and see what is a moral panic and what is true." (Metapsychology, March 2010)
"In a thoroughly updated new edition of their very valuable book, Goode and Ben-Yehuda demonstrate the wide gulf that so often separates the real menaces facing our society from the disproportionate waves of public fear and concern that regularly surface in the mass media. Their book - intelligently written, wide-ranging and provocative - shows us once again that knowing what a society fears is essential to understanding its core values, and its highest aspirations."
–Philip Jenkins, Pennsylvania State University
"Moral Panics is more than a classic text in social theory. In this newly updated and enlarged edition, it is an indispensable text for every twenty-first century scholar interested in the social construction and diffusion of fear."
–Barry Glassner, author of The Culture of Fear
"Moral panics remains one of the most hotly-debated sociological ideas to have entered the public sphere, so an up-dated version of Goode and Ben-Yehuda’s pathbreaking work on this subject is very welcome. The new version is even more enlightening than its predecessor."
–Kenneth Thompson, Open University

Preface and Acknowledgements.
Prologue.
1. Enter the Moral Panic.
2. The Moral Panic: An Introduction.
3. Three Theories of the Moral Panic.
4. The Moral Panic Meets Its Critics.
5. The Media Ignite and Embody the Moral Panic.
6. Deviance, Morality, and Criminal Law.
7. Collective Behavior.
8. Social Movements.
9. Social Problems.
10. The Renaissance Witch Craze.
11. Drug Abuse Panics.
12. The Feminist Anti-Pornography Crusade.
Epilogue: The Demise and Institutionalization of the Moral Panic.
References.
Author Index.
Subject Index.