Social Construction of Moral Panics

Been bashing this topic around with the professor's next door...

There may be a capstone in this topic if we find the right contrarian.

MORAL PANICS: Culture, Politics, and Social Construction 

http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.so.20.080194.001053

The Political Construction of Collective Insecurity: From Moral Panic to Blame Avoidance and Organized Irresponsibility 

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~ces/publications/docs/pdfs/Beland.pdf  

MASS MEDIA, CRIME, AND THE DISCOURSE OF FEAR

http://www.iasc-culture.org/THR/archives/Fear/5.3CAltheide.pdf

These are the only one I've read so far.  No telling when I’ll get to the rest.  I still have several gigs of unread papers collected while researching my Master's...

A Field Guide to Social Construction

http://xcelab.net/rm/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/mallon-field-guide-to-social-construction-2007.pdf

Beck's Sociology of Risk: A Critical Assessment 
http://www.sagepub.com/mcdonaldizationstudy5/articles/Weber%20and%20Other%20Supporting%20Theories_Articles%20PDFs/Elliott.pdf

Critical Theory of World Risk Society: A Cosmopolitan Vision 
http://www.ulrichbeck.net-build.net/uploads/constellations.pdf

Daring to Fear: Optimizing the Encounter of Danger through Education

http://www.metajournal.org//articles_pdf/9-36-alin-cristian-meta7-tehno.pdf

Fear of crime: audit of the literature and community programs volume 1

http://www.criminologyresearchcouncil.gov.au/reports/1998-foc1.pdf

Functional fear and public insecurities about crime 

http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/25537/1/Functional%20Fear%20and%20Public%20Insecurities%20about%20Crime%20(LSERO).pdf

Introduction: The Moral Panic Concept

http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Ashgate-Research-Companion-to-Moral-Panics-Intro.pdf

Living in the world risk society
http://hudson2.skidmore.edu/~rscarce/Soc-Th-Env/Env%20Theory%20PDFs/Beck--WorldRisk.pdf 

Moral Panic and Social Theory: Beyond the Heuristic 

http://dspace.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/5573/2/Fulltext.pdf

Moral panic versus the risk society: the implications of the changing sites of social anxiety

http://penelopeironstone.com/UngarMoralPanic.pdf

Place, social relations and the fear of crime: a review

http://www1.geo.ntnu.edu.tw/~moise/Data/Books/Social/08%20part%20of%20theory/place,%20social%20relations.pdf

The Biology of Fear

http://conte.caltech.edu/sites/default/files/publications/Adolphs_CB_Fear_2013.pdf

The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear

http://faculty.washington.edu/plape/citiesaut11/readings/Low%20Gated%20Communities.pdf

The only thing we have to fear is the ‘culture of fear’ itself

http://www.frankfuredi.com/pdf/fearessay-20070404.pdf

THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF XENOPHOBIA AND OTHER-ISMS

ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/improving/docs/ser_racism_burns.pdf

An FTP site?!! I didn't know they still had those. Quell retro!

These are just the result of some rudimentary Google-fu. Haven’t even gone into the academic DBs yet.

Our role in moral panics can be unconscious, accidental, or deliberate. The choice is ours.