The Myth of Moral Panics
The Myth of Moral PanicsBill Thompson
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The Myth of Moral Panics

The Myth of Moral Panics Sex, Snuff, and Satan

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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.