Folk Devils and Moral Panics

Folk Devils and Moral Panics

Author	Stanley Cohen
Publisher	Granada Publishing
Publication date	1972
Pages	224
ISBN	978-0415610162

Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers is a 1972 sociology book by Stanley Cohen.^[1][2][3] It was the first book to define the social theory of moral panic.^[4][5][6]

See also

• Folk devil
• Moral entrepreneur
• Mass psychogenic illness

References

1. Gelsthorpe, Loraine (2005). "Book Review: Folk Devils and Moral Panics: A Feminist Perspective". Crime, Media, Culture. 1 (1): 112–116. doi:10.1177/1741659005050266. ISSN 1741-6590.
2. "Book Reviews : Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers, Stanley Cohen, England, Granada Publishing, 1972, 224 pp., £2.95". International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 17 (3): 330–330. 1973. doi:10.1177/0306624X7301700317. ISSN 0306-624X.
3. O'Malley, Pat (1988). "Book Review: Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers". Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology. 21 (4): 278–280. doi:10.1177/000486588802100415. ISSN 0004-8658.
4. "Constructing Fear: The Politics of Moral Panics". The Friday Times. 2022-05-21. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
5. Paul, Pamela (2023-06-29). "Do Not Panic. It's Just a Moral Panic". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
6. "Carry on panicking". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2024-06-18.