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Moral Panics in the Contemporary World Moral Panics in the Contemporary World Edited by Chas Critcher, Jason Hughes, Julian Petley and Amanda Rohloff NEW YORK • LONDON • NEW DELHI • SYDNEY Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 1385 Broadway 50 Bedford Square New York London NY 10018 WC1B 3DP USA UK www.bloomsbury.com First published 2013 © Chas Critcher, Jason Hughes, Julian Petley, Amanda Rohloff and Contributors, 2013 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury Academic or the author. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Moral panics in the contemporary world / edited by Chas Critcher, Jason Hughes, Julian Petley and Amanda Rohloff. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–1-62356–893–1 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Moral panics. 2. Mass media – Moral and ethical aspects. 3. Mass media and public opinion. 4. Mass media and crime. I. Critcher, C., editor of compilation. II. Hughes, Jason, editor of compilation. III. Petley, Julian, editor of compilation. IV. Rohloff, Amanda, editor of compilation. HM811.M68 2013 302.23 – dc23 2013000252 EISBN: 978-1-6235-6209-0 Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India In memory of Amanda Rohloff (1982–2012) Academic, colleague, friend Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgements xi List of Contributors xiii 1 Moral Panics in the Contemporary World: Enduring Controversies and Future Directions Amanda Rohloff, Jason Hughes, Julian Petley and Chas Critcher 1 Part 1 Rethinking Moral Panics 2 The Cautionary Tale: A New Paradigm for Studying Media Coverage of Crime Sarah E. H. Moore 33 3 The Journalist, Folk Devil Paul Lashmar 51 4 ‘Are We Insane?’ The ‘Video Nasty’ Moral Panic Julian Petley 73 Part 2 Lifestyle, Risk and Health 5 Theorizing Alcohol in Public Discourse: Moral Panics or Moral Regulation? Henry Yeomans 101 6 Moral Panics, Governmentality and the Media: A Comparative Approach to the Analysis of Illegal Drug Use in the News Jeremy Collins 125 7 ‘ He Who Buries the Little Girl Wins!’ Moral Panics as Double Jeopardy: The Case of Rule of Rose Elisabeth Staksrud and Jørgen Kirksæther 145 Part 3 Crime and Deviance 8 From Media Hypes to Moral Panics: Theoretical and Methodological Tools Marcello Maneri 171 viii Contents 9 Moral Panic and Ritual Abuse: Where’s the Risk? Findings of an Ethnographic Research Study Morena Tartari 193 10 The ‘Chav’ as Folk Devil Elias le Grand 215 Part 4 Immigration, War and Terror 11 M oral Panic around the Burqa in France: An Eliasian Perspective Aurélie Lacassagne 237 12 E lite Power and the Manufacture of a Moral Panic: The Case of the Dirty War in Argentina Jon Oplinger, Richard Talbot and Yasin Aktay 263 Author Index 281 Subject Index 287 List of Illustrations Figures 2.1 Poster produced by cabwise warning of the dangers of ‘taxi rape’ 40 6.1 Stories about mephedrone in the national press, March 2009–November 2010 127 8.1 Trends in media output 176 8.2 Trends in media output 177 9.1 Newspaper coverage of the Flat village controversy, 2006–12 204 11.1 Breakdown of the Information Report of the ‘Information Mission on the practice of the wearing of the integral veil on the national territory’ 250 Tables 2.1 The number of headlines in the Daily Mail/ the Mail on Sunday and the Sun containing specific search terms from 7 December 2008 to 7 December 2010 38 3.1 Audiences have nuanced perception of which media can be trusted 62 3.2 The audience trusts television journalists more than newspaper journalist counterparts 63 8.1 Constituents of the clause named in the headlines 179 8.2 Grammatical forms used in the headlines to name the process 180 10.1 The number of articles in eight major British newspapers mentioning the term chav, 2003–11 217 11.1 Annual number of documents in Le Monde and Libération containing the word ‘burqa’ 239
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