| | Amazon.com: Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance: Books: Erich Goode,Nachman Ben-Yehuda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | From the Renaissance witch craze to the American drug panic of the 1980s, the authors explore the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral panics - and examine their impacts on the societies in which they take place. |
 | | Moral Panics is not only the first, serious book-length treatment of a fascinating subject, but also a superb introduction to wider themes in the sociology of deviance and social problems. |
 | | The correlation of moral panic theory and the wide-scale phenomenon during the 1980s of a growing irrational perception that all drug users were dangerous miscreants, that if drug users are not eradicated the state of America would quickly deteriorate, &c. |
| www.amazon.com /Moral-Panics-Social-Construction-Deviance/dp/063118905X (1560 words) |