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With the increasing number of moral panics in recent years triggered by incidents such as the Bulger case and the spread of AIDS, this book examines their wider significance particularly in terms of the functioning of the mass media.

Deviant behavior --- Deviant behavior in mass media. --- Social problems --- Social problems in mass media. --- Moral conditions. --- Hysteria (Social psychology) --- Mass hysteria --- National hysteria --- Fear --- Social psychology --- Morals --- Social history --- Social norms --- Mass media --- Reform, Social --- Social reform --- Social welfare --- Applied sociology --- Deviancy --- Social deviance --- Human behavior --- Conformity --- Social adjustment --- Public opinion. --- Moral panics --- FAMILY VIOLENCE -- 659.33

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The youth culture is on everyone's lips today, as pressures build to ban controversial song lyrics, reintroduce school prayer, and prohibit teenagers' access to contraceptives. It's not the first time Americans have been outraged over the ""seuction of the innocent."". When James Dean and Marlon Brando donned their motorcycle jackets and adopted alienated poses in Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, and The Wild One, in the 1950's, so did countless numbers of American teenagers. Or so it seemed to their parents. American teenagers were looking and acting like juvenile delinquents. By mid-deca

Deviant behavior in mass media. --- Juvenile delinquency -- United States -- Public opinion. --- Public opinion -- United States. --- Teenagers -- United States -- Public opinion. --- Teenagers in mass media. --- United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-. --- Juvenile delinquency --- Teenagers --- Public opinion --- Public opinion. --- United States --- Social conditions --- Adolescents --- Teen-agers --- Teens --- Young adults (Teenagers) --- Youth --- Mass media --- Delinquency, Juvenile --- Juvenile crime --- Conduct disorders in children --- Crime --- Juvenile corrections --- Reformatories --- Criminology. Victimology --- jongerencriminaliteit