Authors
Horsley, MarkAffiliation
Teeside UniversityPublication Date
2017-08-13
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
In the spirit of Jean Baudrillard’s Forget Foucault this article offers a step-by-step critique of the ‘moral panic’ concept. It begins with a short review of Cohen’s original thesis and its gradual evolution before addressing its remarkable popularity and its ascent to the stature of a domain assumption. The rest of the article uses and extends the existing critique of moral panic theory before arriving at the conclusion that, rather than undergo another period of adaptation, the entire conceptual repertoire of ‘moral panics’ should be ditched to make way for much-needed innovation.Citation
Horsley, M. (2017). Forget ‘Moral Panics’. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology, 9(2), 84-98.Publisher
David PolizziAdditional Links
http://jtpcrim.org/Type
ArticleLanguage
enDescription
This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published work that appeared in final form in Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology. To access the final edited and published work see http://jtpcrim.org/.ISSN
2166-8094Collections
The following license files are associated with this item:
- Creative Commons
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/