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Mary De Young - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic: A Sociological Analysis
    Sociology Compass, 2008
    Co-Authors: Mary De Young
    Abstract:

    A new type of sex crime was discovered in the United States in the 1980s – the sexual abuse of young children in ghastly rituals performed by devil worshippers who happened to be their day care providers. ‘Ritual abuse’, as this new sex crime came to be termed, appeared to be epidemic during that decade; hundreds of day care centers were investigated and scores of providers were arrested and prosecuted. This article asserts that the day care ritual abuse scare was a Moral Panic, in fact, the ‘purest example’ of a Moral Panic in that the putative threat to children had to be wholly constructed. Using the key sociological elements set out by Cohen (1972/2002), this article analyzes the day care ritual abuse Moral Panic and concludes by discussing additional key elements that will facilitate future sociological analyses of Moral Panics.

  • the day care ritual abuse Moral Panic
    2004
    Co-Authors: Mary De Young
    Abstract:

    In the United States during the early 1980s, hundreds of day care providers were accused of sexually abusing their young charges in satanic rituals that included blood drinking, cannibalism, and human sacrifice. The Panic surrounding the ritual abuse of children has spread quickly to Canada, Europe, and Australasia, and its rapid dispersion has been unimpeded by international investigations that found no evidence to corroborate the allegations and warned that a Moral Panic was thrusting them into professional public attention. This work is a sociologically based analysis of the day care ritual abuse Panic in America. It introduces the concept of Moral Panic and analyzes its relevance to the ritual abuse scare, explores the ideological, political, economic, and professional forces that fomented the Panic, discusses the McMartin Preschool case as the incident that brought attention to satanic menaces and children, and examines the dialect between the various interest groups that stirred up and spread the Moral Panic and the day care providers accused of ritual abuse.

Amanda Rohloff - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The idea of Moral Panic – ten dimensions of dispute:
    Crime Media Culture: An International Journal, 2011
    Co-Authors: Matthew David, Amanda Rohloff, Julian Petley, Jason Hughes
    Abstract:

    This paper explores the open and contested concept of Moral Panic over its 40-year history, exploring the contributions made by the concept’s key originators, as well as contemporary researchers. While most Moral Panic researchers are critical, humanist, interpretivist, interventionist and qualitative, this paper highlights ten areas of productive dispute within and around the meaning of Moral Panic theory’s ‘common sense’. Such diversity of interpretation creates multiple possibilities for convergent and divergent theorization and research within a supposedly singular conceptual framework. This lack of closure and consequent diversity of political standpoints, intellectual perspectives and fields of empirical focus, rather than representing the weakness of the concept of Moral Panic, reflects and contributes to its successful diffusion, escalation and innovation.

  • the idea of Moral Panic ten dimensions of dispute
    Crime Media Culture, 2011
    Co-Authors: Matthew David, Amanda Rohloff, Julian Petley, Jason Hughes
    Abstract:

    This paper explores the open and contested concept of Moral Panic over its 40-year history, exploring the contributions made by the concept’s key originators, as well as contemporary researchers. While most Moral Panic researchers are critical, humanist, interpretivist, interventionist and qualitative, this paper highlights ten areas of productive dispute within and around the meaning of Moral Panic theory’s ‘common sense’. Such diversity of interpretation creates multiple possibilities for convergent and divergent theorization and research within a supposedly singular conceptual framework. This lack of closure and consequent diversity of political standpoints, intellectual perspectives and fields of empirical focus, rather than representing the weakness of the concept of Moral Panic, reflects and contributes to its successful diffusion, escalation and innovation.

  • extending the concept of Moral Panic elias climate change and civilization
    Sociology, 2011
    Co-Authors: Amanda Rohloff
    Abstract:

    Combining the theories and concepts of Norbert Elias with the empirical example of climate change, this article aims to extend and develop the concept of Moral Panic. The focus of the analysis is on the documentary An Inconvenient Truth — an exemplar of a more general trend in popular culture regarding the Moralization and individual regulation of climate change. In the final sections of the article, Al Gore’s short-term campaign is related to more long-term social processes.

  • Moral Panic and social theory: Beyond the heuristic
    Current Sociology, 2010
    Co-Authors: Amanda Rohloff, Sarah Wright
    Abstract:

    Chas Critcher has recently conceptualized Moral Panic as a heuristic device, or ‘ideal type’. While he argues that one still has to look beyond the heuristic, despite a few exceptional studies there has been little utilization of recent developments in social theory in order to look ‘beyond Moral Panic’. Explicating two current critical contributions — the first, drawing from the sociologies of governance and risk; the second, from the process/figurational sociology of Norbert Elias — this article highlights the necessity for the continuous theoretical development of the Moral Panic concept and illustrates how such development is essential to overcome some of the substantial problems with Moral Panic research: normativity, temporality and (un)intentionality.

Willem Schinkel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Moral Panic over 'Senseless Violence' in the Netherlands
    2014
    Co-Authors: Willem Schinkel
    Abstract:

    This article analyses the attention given in the Netherlands to what is called 'senseless violence' as an expression of the general idea that violence is growing, and as an example of a Moral Panic. It is argued that this is a combina- tion of a grassroots and interest-group Moral Panic that has been carried along mainly by media and institutionalized civil initiatives. The production of this Moral Panic is illustrated, together with its consequences in the areas of politics, law and social science. It is argued that the Moral Panic over 'senseless violence' is in many respects a 'classic' example of a Moral Panic, but that it departs from this pattern in the sense that it is characterized by the conspicuous absence of Moral deviants. Also, it is argued that the institutionalization of anxiety can cause a Moral Panic to persist for several years. In the case of 'senseless violence', the Moral Panic emerged in 1997 and only very slowly decreased after 2003. The insti- tutionalization of anxiety means that many institutional remnants of the Moral Panic linger on and affect contexts such as politics.

  • Contexts of Anxiety The Moral Panic over `Senseless Violence' in the Netherlands
    Current Sociology, 2008
    Co-Authors: Willem Schinkel
    Abstract:

    This article analyses the attention given in the Netherlands to what is called `senseless violence' as an expression of the general idea that violence is growing, and as an example of a Moral Panic. It is argued that this is a combination of a grassroots and interest-group Moral Panic that has been carried along mainly by media and institutionalized civil initiatives. The production of this Moral Panic is illustrated, together with its consequences in the areas of politics, law and social science. It is argued that the Moral Panic over `senseless violence' is in many respects a `classic' example of a Moral Panic, but that it departs from this pattern in the sense that it is characterized by the conspicuous absence of Moral deviants. Also, it is argued that the institutionalization of anxiety can cause a Moral Panic to persist for several years. In the case of `senseless violence', the Moral Panic emerged in 1997 and only very slowly decreased after 2003. The institutionalization of anxiety means that many institutional remnants of the Moral Panic linger on and affect contexts such as politics.

Cahyaning Familyati - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • A Moral Panic AS THE IMPACT OF PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER AS PORTRAYED IN ALICE SEBOLD’S THE LOVELY BONES
    2016
    Co-Authors: Cahyaning Familyati
    Abstract:

    Psychosexual disorder is a mental health problem referring to sexual dysfunctions. In this study, the writer investigates psychosexual disorder (pedophilia) which was suffered by the main character in The Lovely Bones. The second issue is a Moral Panic that was portrayed in the novel as the impact of this disorder on the victim, family, and society. The object of the study is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. It is a qualitative descriptive study which applied Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud as the approach to analyse the novel. The results of the study show: first, psychosexual disorder was caused by a fixation when the character of Mr. Harvey was in phallic stage, the criminal as illustrated in the novel could not pass psychosexual development perfectly. As the result, he becomes a pedophile and raped and murdered children. Second, the impact of the crime caused by someone who suffers psychosexual disorder causes a Moral Panic towards the victim, family, and society. This is due to anxiety and fearful feeling which are felt by them. According to Welsh (2011), the Moral Panic reaction of the neighbour is the fear of extinction caused by unconscious fixation. The ‘Panic’ is caused by the psychosexual disorder’s body represented by human, while the sense of Morality is caused by the blurring of boundaries between the self and other.

  • a Moral Panic as the impact of psychosexual disorder as portrayed in alice sebold s the lovely bones
    2016
    Co-Authors: Cahyaning Familyati
    Abstract:

    Psychosexual disorder is a mental health problem referring to sexual dysfunctions. In this study, the writer investigates psychosexual disorder (pedophilia) which was suffered by the main character in The Lovely Bones. The second issue is a Moral Panic that was portrayed in the novel as the impact of this disorder on the victim, family, and society. The object of the study is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. It is a qualitative descriptive study which applied Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud as the approach to analyse the novel. The results of the study show: first, psychosexual disorder was caused by a fixation when the character of Mr. Harvey was in phallic stage, the criminal as illustrated in the novel could not pass psychosexual development perfectly. As the result, he becomes a pedophile and raped and murdered children. Second, the impact of the crime caused by someone who suffers psychosexual disorder causes a Moral Panic towards the victim, family, and society. This is due to anxiety and fearful feeling which are felt by them. According to Welsh (2011), the Moral Panic reaction of the neighbour is the fear of extinction caused by unconscious fixation. The ‘Panic’ is caused by the psychosexual disorder’s body represented by human, while the sense of Morality is caused by the blurring of boundaries between the self and other.

Russell E. Ward - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Fan violence: Social problem or Moral Panic?
    Aggression and Violent Behavior, 2002
    Co-Authors: Russell E. Ward
    Abstract:

    Abstract The author reviews the theoretical and empirical resources available for social scientists who study fan violence. Reviews of fan violence typically discuss the phenomenon from psychological, psychosocial, and sociological approaches. In this review, the author uses social problem and Moral Panic approaches to organize theories of and research into fan violence. The social problem approach focuses on what causes the “problem” of fan violence. The Moral Panic approach focuses on how fan violence becomes translated into a social problem. Moral Panics are rapid and righteous appeals from the media and other agents of control that “something must be done” to extinguish a social menace. It is argued that both the social problem and Moral Panic approaches signify the importance of “we-group” versus “they-group” antagonisms in the creation and maintenance of fan violence.