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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Moral Panics"”.
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Satanic abuse, false memories, weird beliefs and moral panics
… of weird beliefs, and the sociology of moral panics. I was one of the first researchers internationally to conclude there was no physical, forensic evidence that Satanic abuse existed. My ‘Making of a Satanic Myth’ feature, published in the Independent on Sunday in 1990, has been cited …
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Moral Panics and the Criminalization of Immigration: America'S Response to Post-9/11 Federal Regulations and the USA PATRIOT Act
… policy. A critical gesture in restoring the morale and security of the United States public inevitably included seeking an apt response that paralleled the devastation of the strikes. However, the resulting changes in society's reaction to immigration and the degree to which immigrants and …
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Magic to manic : the evolution of the zombie figure In fiction and its basis In moral panic dissemination
… with the prevalence and dissipation of moral panics. Conclusions on the influence of moral panics on Zombie figures are drawn through a juxtaposition of identified moral panics and the prevalence of Zombie categories. The representation of moral panics in the horror literature produced …
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Race & Crime on the Evening News: New Orleans in the Days after Hurricane Katrina
… to type of crime. The media as a constructor of moral panics, colorblind racism in the form of a coded racist script, and cultural fear of crime support these results.
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Moral Panic and Political Rhetoric in the Early American Republic
… and August, 1793. A hybrid form of sociological moral panic theory, focused predominantly on the "iteration" of moral panics and the language used to communicate them, is used to understand the dynamics of the information landscape of 1793. Specific attention is paid to the effects of time and …
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Reconsidering the siblings : a critical study of Robert Bly's The Sibling Society
… Siblings attempts to investigate the nature of moral panics by testing The Sibling Society, a work written by a prominent American Literary critic, Robert Bly. In his work Robert Bly suggests that America is in deep crisis and that a return to vertical associations and relationships will help …
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Any spares? I’ll buy or sell: an ethnographic study of black market ticket sales
… such as bots, as distractions, or as “engineered moral panics” (Atkinson, 1997).
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Sex offenders, sexuality, and social control: A case study in the social construction of a social problem
… The societal reaction is created through moral panics resulting in views that are not always reflective of the nature of the problem. In effect, the policies put into place in the name of declaring war on the deviant behavior reflect these views and do not target the specific problem.</p> …
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Researching British university sport initiations
… has focussed on ‘exposing and condemning’ morally unacceptable initiation activities, which are referred to as hazing. Hazing moral panics in North America has resulted in universities utilising sport initiation empirical research to construct anti-hazing policies; policies proven to be …
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Amoral panic: the construction of 'antisocial behaviour' and the institutionalisation of vulnerability
Through a re-examination of the issue of moral panics, with particular reference to sociological work around ideas of ‘risk’ and a ‘culture of fear’, this thesis attempts to examine the emergence of the social problem of ‘antisocial behaviour’. Situated in part within the changing political terrain …
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Occult-Related Crime and the Policing thereof, through the lens of Cosmology of Socio-Political Factors
… and it touches on global occult crimes and ‘moral panics'. Occult crime is not labelled as such, but as general crimes, but the argument is for the typology of occult crime, for this has implications on police training and investigation, as well sentencing processes in courts. Modern-day …
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In the Image of a Woman: Spirited Identifications and Embodied Interpellations Along the Betsiboka Valley
… considers and diverges from these biomedical and moral panics by attending to the dynamic and often ambiguous relationship between sarimbavy and tromba spirit mediumship. In focusing upon the epistemological and hermeneutical labor that possession provides for those who live “in the image of a …
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"So barbarous a practice": Cornish wrecking, ca. 1700-1860, and its survival as popular myth
… The coastal populace had their own popular morality, including the use of mediation and constraint, which allowed them to practise wrecking, salvage, and lifesaving activities simultaneously. They did not condone all forms of wrecking; thus it cannot be deemed a 'social crime'. Wreckers did …
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A Critical Analysis of the Print Media Representation of Children and Young People during Transition from Conflict in Northern Ireland
… ‘deviancy amplification’, ‘folk devils’ and ‘moral panics’. In providing an evidence-base, the empirical research includes content analysis of print media collected over six months (March 2010 to August 2010) and a case study of what was represented as youth involvement in ‘sectarian’ rioting …
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Working through change: An insider's analysis of FE teachers and tutors lived experience in a time of initiative overload
… and support staff went through different ‘moral panics’ during a period of massive change and uncertainty in the post compulsory sector. The original grounded theory type emergent categories and my own personal ontology lead me to adopt the position of a ‘critical realist’ where I have also …
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Youth Culture and the Politics of Youth in 1960s Cuba
… people challenged the positive picture of youth, moral panics ensued. Young people were neither inherent saints nor accidental sinners in Cuba in the 1960s, and sought multiple ways in which to express themselves. Firstly, they played their role as activists through the youth organisations, the …
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Mosh pits and mental health: metal communities and emerging adults' well-being
… detailing public perceptions, stigmas, and moral panics associated with the music and its fans. The chapter will be closed with a discussion of the research site, scope, and overall aims of the study, namely to provide greater insights into the mental health and well-being of emerging adults …