The Myth of Moral Panics: Sex, Snuff, and Satan
By Bill Thompson & Andy Williams
- Release Date: 2013-09-11
- Genre: Social Science
Description
This study provides a comprehensive critique - forensic, historical, and theoretical of the moral panic paradigm, using empirically grounded ethnographic research to argue that the panic paradigm suffers from fundamental flaws that make it a myth rather than a viable academic perspective.