Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers

by Stanley Cohen

Book Overview

'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New Society

Mods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was Stanley Cohen's classic account, first published in the early 1970s and regularly revised, that brought the term 'moral panic' into widespread discussion. It is an outstanding investigation of the way in which the media and often those in a position...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415610168
• ISBN13: 9780415610162
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.7"