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The Ashgate Research Companion to Moral Panics offers a comprehensive assemblage of cutting-edge critical and theoretical perspectives on the concept of moral panic. All chapters represent original research by many of the most influential theorists and researchers now working in the area of moral panic, including Nachman Ben-Yehuda and Erich Goode, Joel Best, Chas Critcher, Mary deYoung, Alan Hunt, Toby Miller, Willem Schinkel, Kenneth Thompson, Sheldon Ungar, and Grazyna Zajdow. Chapters come from a range of disciplines, including media studies, literary studies, history, legal studies, and sociology, with significant new elaborations on the concept of moral panic (and its future), informed and powerful critiques, and detailed empirical studies from several continents. A clear and comprehensive survey of a concept that is increasingly influential in a number of disciplines as well as in popular culture, this collection of the latest research in the field addresses themes including the evolution of the moral panic concept, sex panics, media panics, moral panics over children and youth, and the future of the moral panic concept.

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I know of no other book that comes close to providing such a comprehensive look at the history of approaches to understanding moral panics, along with contemporary applications and prospects for future development.'Barry Glassner, Lewis & Clark College, USA and author of The Culture of Fear

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Charles Krinsky has taught at several colleges and universities in the United States, including the University of California, Irvine, and the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.He is editor of Moral Panics over Contemporary Children and Youth. Charles Krinsky, Erich Goode, Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Toby Miller,, Alan Hunt, Joel Best, Chrysanthi S. Leon, John J. Brent, Pamela D. Schultz, Jaime McCauley, Mary deYoung, Patricia Molloy, Samantha A. Smith, Simon A. Cole, Maire Messenger Davies, Magdalena Rek-Wozniak, Wojciech Wozniak, Tuukka Toivonen, Willem Schinkel, Natalia De'Carli, Mariano Perez Humanes, Bryan E. Denham, Grazyna Zajdow, Sheldon Ungar, Chas Critcher, Julia Pearce, Kenneth Thompson Amanda Rohloff, Brian V. Klocke, Glenn W. Muschert.

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