Scroungers: Moral Panics and Media Myths

by James Morrison

Book Overview

Scroungers, spongers, parasites ...

These are just are some of the terms that are typically used, with increasing frequency, to describe the most vulnerable in our society, whether they be the sick, the disabled, or the unemployed. Long a popular scapegoat for all manner of social ills, under austerity we've seen hostility towards benefit claimants reach new levels of hysteria, with the 'undeserving poor' blamed for everything from crime...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786992140
• ISBN13: 9781786992147
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"