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This Byte offers readers insight into some of the central debates and questions about gender and the family, examined through the lens of moral panic. It begins with an overview of the part played by moral panics, together with an appraisal of the work of Stanley Cohen, one of the chief architects of moral panic ideas. Drawing on research and practice examples from different parts of the world, it explores interconnections between gender, class, ‘race’ and age, and interrogates the role of the state (and social work) in intervening in family life.
Childhood and youth have often been the targets of moral panic rhetoric. This Byte explores a series of pressing concerns about young people: child abuse, child pornography, child sexual exploitation, child trafficking and the concept of childhood. With an appraisal of the work of the influential thinker, Geoffrey Pearson, who wrote on deviance and young people, it draws attention to the moralising within these discourses and asks how we might do things differently.
Commentators have long debated ‘the moral’ in ideas about moral panic, moral regulation and moral discourse. This byte teases out some of the fundamental moral questions that continue to perplex us, about life and death, good and evil, and sex and the body. With an appraisal of the work of one of the chief architects of moral panic ideas, Jock Young, it asks whether these ideas may help or hinder our understanding of these complex issues.
Many of the individual and social problems that are characterised as moral panics are, in reality, illustrations of a breakdown in the legitimacy of the state. This Byte picks up a number of case-study examples - internet pornography; internet radicalisation; ‘chavs’; the Tottenham riots; patient safety - and explores each through the lens of moral panic ideas, with an appraisal of the work of Stuart Hall, one of the key thinkers in moral panics.
We live in a world that is increasingly characterised as full of risk, danger and threat. Every day a new social issue emerges to assail our sensibilities and consciences. Drawing on the popular Economic Social and Research Council (ESRC) seminar series, this book examines these social issues and anxieties, and the solutions to them, through the concept of moral panic.
With a commentary by Charles Critcher and contributions from both well-known and up-and-coming researchers and practitioners, this is a stimulating and innovative overview of moral panic ideas, which will be an essential resource.
born on 26 March 1943 in Manchester, England and studied moral sciences (Philosophy and Psychology) at Cambridge University. He worked with people with disabilities in Sheffield before going to the London School of Economics to undertake training in psychiatric social work (interestingly, Stan Cohen was also a qualified psychiatric social worker). After qualifying, he returned to Sheffield to practise as a psychiatric social worker. Pearson went on to become a Lecturer in Social Work at Sheffield Polytechnic, and then took up a similar position at University
born on 26 March 1943 in Manchester, England and studied moral sciences (Philosophy and Psychology) at Cambridge University. He worked with people with disabilities in Sheffield before going to the London School of Economics to undertake training in psychiatric social work (interestingly, Stan Cohen was also a qualified psychiatric social worker). After qualifying, he returned to Sheffield to practise as a psychiatric social worker. Pearson went on to become a Lecturer in Social Work at Sheffield Polytechnic, and then took up a similar position at University
estimate is based on a figure from a study that found that 2% of the study sample met at least five of the following seven criteria, and were therefore multiply disadvantaged: No parent in the family is in work; Family lives in overcrowded housing; No parent has any qualifications; Mother has mental health problems; At least one parent has a long-standing limiting illness, disability or infirmity; Family has low income (below 60% of median income); Family cannot afford a number of food and clothing items. (Levitas, 2012) It is clear that these criteria relate to
individuals should not intervene in important private decisions such as suicide; • rights to dignity; • rights to equality, arguing that, since suicide is legal in most jurisdictions, people who, because of disability, cannot secure their own suicide are treated unequally by the law and the state because they are denied a legal choice available to others. Since people have the right to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment, it is illogical that they are not permitted to take their lives, which amounts to the same thing; • right to freedom of conscience and
(accessed 6 January 2014). Cabinet Office (2011a) PM’s speech on the fightback after the riots, www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pms-speech-on-the-fightback- after-the-riots (accessed 25 November 2013). Cabinet Office (2011b) David Cameron’s speech on plans to improve services for troubled families, www.gov.uk/government/speeches/ troubled-families-speech (accessed 4 August 2014). Garland, D. (2008) ‘On the concept of moral panic’, Crime Media Culture, vol 4, pp 9–30. Garthwaite, K. (2011) ‘The language of shirkers and scroungers? Talking about illness, disability and
