Erich Goode & Nachman Ben-Yehuda 
Moral Panics 
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

Inhoudsopgave

Preface and Acknowledgements viii

Prologue 1

1 Enter the Moral Panic 20

2 The Moral Panic: An Introduction 34

3 Three Theories of the Moral Panic 51

4 The Moral Panic Meets Its Critics 73

5 The Media Ignite and Embody the Moral Panic 88

6 Deviance, Morality, and Criminal Law 109

7 Collective Behavior 129

8 Social Movements 141

9 Social Problems 150

10 The Renaissance Witch Craze 168

11 Drug Abuse Panics 197

12 The Feminist Anti-Pornography Crusade 218

Epilogue: The Demise and Institutionalization of the Moral Panic 245

References 251

Author Index 270

Subject Index 275

Over de auteur

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).