Contents

pp iii-v

Contributors

pp vi-x

Preface

pp xi-xvi

Commentary moral panics yesterday, today and tomorrow

pp xvii-xxxvi

Part One - Gender and the family

pp 1-2

Introduction - Introduction

pp 3-8

One - Women and children first. Contemporary Italian moral panics and the role of the state

pp 9-18

Two - Myths, monsters and legends: negotiating an acceptable working class femininity in a marginalised and demonised Welsh locale

pp 19-28

Three - Making a moral panic: ‘feral families’, family violence and welfare reforms in New Zealand. Doing the work of the state?

pp 29-38

Four - The wrong type of mother: moral panic and teenage parenting

pp 39-48

Five - Amoral panic: the fall of the autonomous family and the rise of ‘early intervention’

pp 49-58

Afterword:when panic meets practice

pp 59-66

Part Two - Moral panics in our time? Childhood and youth

pp 67-68

Introduction

pp 69-72

six - Child protection and moral panic

pp 73-82

Seven - Unearthing melodrama: moral panic theory and the enduring characterisation of child trafficking

pp 83-92

Eight - Lost childhood?

pp 93-102

Nine - Internet risk research and child sexual abuse: a misdirected moral panic?

pp 103-112

Ten - The Rotherham abuse scandal

pp 113-122

Afterword

pp 123-130

Part Three - The state, government and citizens

pp 131-132

Introduction

pp 133-136

Eleven - Children and internet pornography: a moral panic, a salvation for censors and trojan horse for government colonisation of the digital frontier

pp 137-148

Twelve - Internet radicalisation and the ‘Woolwich murder’

pp 149-158

Thirteen - Moralising discourse and the dialectical formation of class identities: the social reaction to ‘chavs’ in Britain

pp 159-168

Fourteen - The presence of the absent parent: troubled families and the England ‘riots’ of 2011

pp 169-178

Fifteen - Patient safety: a moral panic

pp 179-188

Afterword

pp 189-194

Part Four - Moral crusades, moral regulation and morality

pp 195-196