This opening paragraph by Stanley Cohen is among the most cited in the sociology of deviance and the media. Indeed, as Critcher observes, many users of the concept of the moral panic quote no more than this passage and extrapolate from single case studies to a much...
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Rowe, D. (2009). The Concept of the Moral Panic: An Historico-Sociological Positioning. In Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England (pp. 22–40). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274679_2
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