Moral Panic

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Websites & Articles

The Anatomy of a Moral Panic

The First Moral Panic, London 1744

Moral Panic toolkit

Moral Panic: Who Benefits from Public Fear?

Meme Tracking and the Dynamics of a News Cycle

Books

Moral panics : the social construction of deviance / Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda

Revisiting moral panics / edited by Viviene E. Cree, Gary Clapton and Mark Smith

We believe the children : a moral panic in the 1980s / Richard Beck

Youth, popular culture and moral panics : penny gaffs to gangsta-rap, 1830-1996 / John Springhall

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