Folk Devils & Moral Panics. The creation of the Mods and Rockers

Cohen, Stanley

ISBN 10: 0261100211 / ISBN 13: 9780261100213

Published by MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1972

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Brown boards have silver titles on spine. Minimal bumping and rubbing of spine ends and corners and slight fading along edges but in very good order overall. Contents tight with previous owner's name on front e/p. 224pp with some b&w plates. Some foxing of page edges. Dust jacket has some foxing internally, some age discolouration and bumping and chipping along top edge with 2 small closed tears at top corners. Overall a very nice copy of this first edition. Seller Inventory # 22288

Bibliographic Details

Title: Folk Devils & Moral Panics. The creation of ...

Publisher: MacGibbon & Kee, London

Publication Date: 1972

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good +

Dust Jacket Condition: Good +

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

Stanley Cohen's study of Mods and Rockers in the 1960s was a foundational text both in terms of investigating the workings of subcultural groups and identifying the concept of a 'moral panic' generated by the media, which leads to groups being vilified in the popular imagination, and inhibits rational debate about solutions to the social problems such groups represent. The insights Cohen provides into subculture and mass morality are as relevant today as they were when the book was originally published in 1972, as illustrated by the author's introduction for this new edition, in which he tracks moral panics over the last thirty years, commenting on the demonization of young offenders and asylum seekers and on the News of the World's 'name and shame' campaign against paedophiles.
Revisiting the theory of moral panic and exploring the way in which the concept has been used, this new edition features a select bibliography of key texts for further reading. The third edition of Folk Devils and Moral Panics makes available a valuable and widely recommended text.

About the Author:

Professor Stanley Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He received the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology (1985) and is on the Board of the International Council on Human Rights. He is a member of the British Academy.