Viviene E. Cree & Gary Clapton 
Revisiting Moral Panics [EPUB ebook] 

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 Mc Kendrick;

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

Dr Mark Smith is senior lecturer and head of social work at the University of Edinburgh. He has previous practice experience in residential child care.