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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Moral panics over contemporary children and youth
1. Juvenile delinquents - Public opinion 2. Youth
Attitudes 3. Moral panics 4. Children - Crimes against
Public opinion 5. Public opinion
I. Krinsky, Charles
364.36
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Moral panics over contemporary children and youth / [edited] by Charles Krinsky.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7465-8
1. Children--Social conditions. 2. Youth--Social conditions. 3. Social problems. I. Krin
sky, Charles.
HQ767.9.M67 2008
362.7--dc22
2008030727
ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-7465-8 (hbk)
Elizabeth Brown
Elizabeth Brown received her PhD in Geography with a graduate certificate in Law, Societies, and Justice from the University of Washington. She is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Studies at San Francisco State University. Her research has been published in Antipode, Geography Compass, and Economic Geography. Her work investigates the intersection between geographical approaches to crime control and racial exclusion in an era of mass incarceration.
Mary deYoung
Mary de Young holds a PhD in Sociology from Western Michigan University. She is Professor of Sociology at Grand Valley State University and a Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress (BCETS). She has presented papers at national and international conferences and published extensively on the interrelated issues of trauma, memory, and culture. Her books include The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic (McFarland, 2004) and The Ritual Abuse Controversy: An Annotated Bibliography (McFarland, 2002).
Vincent Doyle
Vincent Doyle serves on the faculty of the School of Communication of IE University in Segovia, Spain, His teaching and research interests include critical cultural studies, queer media studies, the ethnography of cultural production, and documentary video production. He is a former Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow (2005-2007) and a Fellow of the Sexuality Research Program of the Social Science Research Council (2000).
Charles Krinsky
Charles Krinsky holds a PhD in Comparative Culture from the University of California, Irvine, He teaches in the College of Professional Studies of Northeastern University. His research and teaching interests include the construction of social identities, particularly those concerning sexuality and gender, in American films and popular culture.
Toby Miller
Toby Miller serves as Chair of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies of the University of California. Riverside. His books include The Avengers (British Film Institute 1997/Indiana University Press, 1998) and The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993). He is editor of the journal Television and New Media and editor or coeditor of numerous other books and book series.
Robert Payne
Robert Payne holds a PhD in English from the University of Sydney. He is a media and cultural studies scholar who has taught for several years in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney. His research focuses on media and subjectivity in contemporary culture, particularly in relation to gender and sexuality.
Tony Roshan Samara
Tony Roshan Samara serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of George Mason University. His research centers on governance, urban development, and race, ethnicity, and nationalism. His work has appeared in Acta Juridica, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, and the Journal of Southern African Studies.
Bernard Schissel
Bernard Schissel is Professor of Sociology at the University of Saskatchewan. His books include Still Blaming Children: Youth Conduct and the Politics of Child Hating (Fernwood, 2007), Marginality and Condemnation: An Introduction to Criminology, 2nd Edition (with Carolyn Brooks, Fernwood, 2008). The Legacy of School for Aboriginal People: Education, Oppression, and Emancipation (with Terry Wotherspoon, Oxford University Press. 2003). Blaming Children: Youth Crime, Moral Panics and the Politics of Hate (Fernwood, 1997). and The Social Dimensions of Canadian Youth Justice (Oxford University Press, 1994).
Pamela D. Schultz
Pamela D. Schultz is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Alfred University. Besides numerous journal and newspaper articles, she is the author of Not Monsters: Analyzing the Stories of Child Molesters (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005) and A Critical Analysis of the Rhetoric of Child Sexual Abuse (Edwin Mellen, 2000). Her current research focuses on law and public policy regarding child sexual abuse and sexual offenders, which she examines using methods such as social construction theory and narrative analysis.
John Springhall
John Springhall is Reader Emeritus in History at the University of Ulster. He is the author of The Genesis of Mass Culture: Show Business Live in America, 1840 to 1940 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Decolonization Since 1945: The Collapse of European Overseas Empires (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), and Youth, Popular Culture and Moral Panics: Penny Gaffs to Gangsta Rap, 18301996 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999).
Susan J. Terrio
Susan Terrio is Associate Professor of French and Anthropology at Georgetown University, where she holds a joint appointment in the Department of French and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Her current research focuses on the definition, treatment and representation of troubled youth in the Paris juvenile court, the largest and most influential court in France. She is the author of Judging Muhammad: Juvenile Delinquency, Immigration, and Exclusion at the Paris Palace of Justice (Stanford University Press, 2008) and Crafting the Culture and History of French Chocolate (University of California Press, 2000).
Sheldon Ungar
Sheldon Ungar is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. Besides his continuing interest in social anxiety produced by historical events such as the nuclear arms race and climate change, his current research examines knowledge and ignorance and the ways that popular culture and new media affect "cultural literacy." His recent work includes articles in the Canadian Journal of Sociology, the Journal of American History, and the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology.