Title Devilry, deviance, and public sphere : the social discovery of moral panic in eighteenth century London / Christopher Hamerton

Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 282 pages) Contents Foreword: Professor Dick Hobbs -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Devilry, Deviance, and Public Sphere: The Social Discovery of Moral Panic in Eighteenth Century London -- Chapter 2: The shaping of opinion: Literacy, media, and folk devils in eighteenth-century London -- Chapter 3: This great and monstrous thing, called London -- Chapter 4: Who has not trembled at the Mohocks name? Panic on the streets, 1712 -- Chapter 5: Kill-grief and Comfort: Madame Geneva and the London gin panic, 1720-1751 -- Chapter 6: Morality amid monstrosity: The London Monster panic, 1790 -- Chapter 7: Conclusion Summary Devilry, Deviance, and Public Sphere draws on criminology and social theory to explore and expand social historical themes in the analysis of perceptions of deviance and crime in the eighteenth century. Developing the theoretical device of Folk Devils and Moral Panics, instigated by Stanley Cohen and developed by Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda, the book explores the social discovery of, and public response to, crime and deviance in that period. Detailed contemporary case studies of youth violence, sexual deviance, and substance abuse are used to argue that Hanoverian London and its novel media can be identified as the initiating historical site for what might now be termed public order moral panics. In doing so, Hamerton provides a vivid historical lineage of moral panic which traverses much of the long eighteenth century. The book considers social change, allowing for points of theoretical convergence and divergence to be observed, whilst exploring historical models of public opinion, media, deviance and crime alongside the unique character and power located within the burgeoning Metropolis. Devilry, Deviance, and Public Sphere seeks to make an important contribution to the understanding of both moral panic theory and the historiography of crime and deviance, and posits that the current discourse on folk devils and moral panics can be extended and enriched via the exploration of the moral crises of earlier centuries. Christopher Hamerton is Deputy Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Research in the School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 21, 2022) Subject Moral panics -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century Deviant behavior -- England -- London -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century Deviant behavior -- Public opinion Moral conditions -- Public opinion Moral panics SUBJECT London (England) -- Moral conditions -- Public opinion -- 18th century Subject England -- London Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9783031148835 3031148835

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