Widening The Focus: Moral Panics as Moral Regulation

Critcher, Chas

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“…Criminal Facilitators issue of moral panic over food-safety is also in play (Critcher 2008). Thus it is apparent that there are structural issues that are of interest to Critical Criminologists and Rural Criminologist.…”

Section: Green-collar Crimementioning

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Critiquing the Inter-Disciplinary Literature on Food Fraud

Smith¹,

Manning²,

McElwee³

2017

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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The European Horsemeat Scandal of 2013 is a recent manifestation of the problem of 'Food fraud'. It is important from a criminological perspective because it exists at the nexus between organized crime and bad business practice and is a contemporary example of criminalentrepreneurship. From a practical perspective it is a pernicious criminal activity perpetuated by diverse organized-crime-groups, rogue-entrepreneurs and food-industry-insiders. It is a whitecollar-crime committed in the commercial arena, across an extended international food-chain. Geographic and policy boundaries make it difficult to police. Although a high level of awareness of the fraud exists globally, there is a dearth of critical academic research into the phenomenon. The extant literature is spread thinly across various disciplinary silos. This essay by two Business School Scholars and a Food Scientist, discusses the need to develop a more critical, interdisciplinary approach to developing appropriate theoretical frameworks.

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Section: Green-collar Crimementioning

confidence: 99%

Critiquing the Inter-Disciplinary Literature on Food Fraud

Smith¹,

Manning²,

McElwee³

2017

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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“…AIDS, child abuse, drugs, immigration, media violence, street crime and youth deviance are the most common topics of moral panic (Critcher 2009). Moral panic is related to an experienced or imagined crisis.…”

Section: The Concept Of a Moral Panicmentioning

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“…However, previous approaches have been found to be partly inadequate to explain some panics, and criticism has led to the association of moral panics with other related concepts such as social control, moral order and moral regulation (see Critcher 2009;Hier 2002).…”

Section: The Concept Of a Moral Panicmentioning

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Moral panic, moral regulation and essentialization of identities: Discursive struggle over unethical business practices in the Finnish national media

Siltaoja

2013

Culture and Organization

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“…However, while they are deemed to be 'bad' in the eyes of the researcher, no doubt in some instances those involved in the panic thought that they were doing 'good'. This illustrates the necessity for moral panic researchers to look beyond the 'conservative' examples that are typical of the classic moral panics; no doubt the climate at the time, 1960s/1970s, contributed to a particular research focus that has left a legacy where the 'political project' (see Critcher, 2009) of moral panic research remains a prime focus, thereby limiting the application, exploration and development of the concept (see also Garland, 2008;Rohloff & Wright, 2010).…”

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¿Pánicos morales como procesos civilizatorios y descivilizatorios? Un debate comparativo

Rohloff

2013

Política Soc.

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This paper draws from a variety of case study examples of 'moral panic analyses', in combination with figurational analyses of the same topics, to comparatively explore the variant forms 'moral panics' take and how they develop, thereby analysing the multiple forms civilising processes can take. Using 'moral panic' as an illustrative example, this paper will discuss how and to what extent civilising processes can give rise to decivilising trends (in the form of moral panics) yet, at the same time, these moral panics can also bring about integrative 'civilising' effects in the form of civilising offensives that reflect possible long-term civilising trends (in the form of accelerated campaigns; a civilising 'spurt'). Throughout this comparative discussion, I aim to highlight not only the complexity of civilising processes, but also the complex civilising and decivilising aspects of moral panics, thereby overcoming the dichotomous normative conceptualization of moral panics as being either 'good' or 'bad' panics. The paper then moves onto a discussion of the paradoxical idea of viewing moral panics as civilising and decivilising processes. Drawing from Foucault, Elias, and moral panic, the paper concludes with a discussion of a rethinking of civilising and decivilising processes, intended and unintended developments, short-term and long-term processes, and the role of knowledge in civilising processes.Key words: alcohol, climate change, drugs, Michel Foucault, Norbert Elias, moral panic Rohloff, A. (2013). "Moral panics as civilising and decivilising processes? A comparative discussion". Política y Sociedad, Vol.50 Núm 2:483-500 _____________ 1 Este artículo fue aceptado para publicación de acuerdo con el criterio expresado por dos evaluaciones anónimas. Éstas recomendaron modificaciones formales puntuales que en nada afectan al contenido substancial del artículo. El inesperado fallecimiento de la autora impidió que fuese realizada esa revisión final. En consecuencia, por decisión del Consejo Editorial, el artículo se publica en su versión original, a la que se le han añadido pequeñas correcciones de naturaleza exclusivamente tipográfica a cargo de los coordinadores de este monográfico Referencia normalizada

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Widening The Focus: Moral Panics as Moral Regulation

Cited by 123 publications

References 13 publications

Critiquing the Inter-Disciplinary Literature on Food Fraud

Critiquing the Inter-Disciplinary Literature on Food Fraud

Moral panic, moral regulation and essentialization of identities: Discursive struggle over unethical business practices in the Finnish national media

¿Pánicos morales como procesos civilizatorios y descivilizatorios? Un debate comparativo

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