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Publication details [#27155]
Jenkins, Philip. 1992. Intimate enemies: Moral panics in contemporary Great Britain. Walter de Gruyter. 262 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
This book demonstrates how the media, bureaucrats and social workers can contrive to construct 'moral panics' and create a perception of increasing social menace, which in fact serves to uphold power-holders' image, using as an exemplary case the 1980s situation in Britain.
