The State

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The State is written by Viviene E. Cree and published by Policy Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1447321995 (ISBN 10) and 9781447321996 (ISBN 13).

Many of the individual and social problems that are characterised as moral panics are, in reality, illustrations of a breakdown in the legitimacy of the state. This Byte picks up a number of case-study examples - internet pornography; internet radicalisation; ‘chavs’; the Tottenham riots; patient safety - and explores each through the lens of moral panic ideas, with an appraisal of the work of Stuart Hall, one of the key thinkers in moral panics.