Contents

Preface: The Dark Side

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Moral Panic for Dummies

PART I

The Making of a Myth

1  

Constructing Moral Panic

2

Sozzled Students, Drunken Debutantes and the Hidden History of Mods and Rockers

3

Mugging Reality

PART II

Progressive Panic

4  

Witch Hunts and Moral Enterprise

5

A Very Nasty Business

6

Who Needs Satan?

PART III

The New Politics of Panic

7

Streets of Fire

Conclusion: Carry on Panicking

Notes

References

Index