Child Sexual Abuse, Moral Panic, and the Mass Media: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Deviance

This is a case study of newswork in a moral panic. Specifically, Stanley Cohen's concept of moral panic is used to examine the practices of a group of reporters who covered a widely publicized case of alleged child sexual abuse in a day-care center. Moral panics occur when a perceived threat to...

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1. VerfasserIn: Gorelick, Steven M (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 1995
In:Jahr: 1995
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