Cohen, Stanley (2011) Whose side were we on? The undeclared politics of moral panic theory. Crime, media, culture, 7 (3). pp. 237-243. ISSN 1741-6590
Abstract
This paper deals with some hidden political dimensions of moral panic theory. It concentrates on the implications of two related claims about what this battle meant: first, that moral panics are inherently normative and can be categorized as good and bad moral panics (the ones that we study are invariably bad); second, that students of moral panics have to take sides in this normative battle. There are differences in the ways this question was originally posed in the late 1960s and today
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2011 The Author |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | deviance, labelling, moral panics, social control |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Sets: | Departments > Sociology Research centres and groups > Mannheim Centre for Criminology |
| Rights: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| Identification Number: | http://cmc.sagepub.com/ |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/41568/ |
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