Keyword

folk devils

Description: Folk devils are people or groups portrayed as threatening social norms, often as outsiders or deviants, in processes associated with moral panics.

Primary topic: Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (61%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q5464460

OpenAlex ID: keywords/folk-devils

Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of Mods and Rockers (1972–2002)

2019 · Stanley Cohen · Routledge eBooks · 3,595

Folk Devils and Moral Panics

2011 · Stanley Cohen · Routledge eBooks · 2,265

Folk devils and moral panics

2016 · David W. Gutzke · Manchester University Press eBooks · 623

Folk devils and moral panics

2002 · Simon Cottee · Theoretical Criminology · 587

Rethinking 'Moral Panic' for Multi-Mediated Social Worlds

1995 · Angela McRobbie, Sarah L. Thornton · British Journal of Sociology · 557

Moral Panics: Culture, Politics, and Social Construction

1994 · Erich Goode, Nachman Ben-Yehuda · Annual Review of Sociology · 544

Folk devils and moral panics

1999 · PsycEXTRA Dataset · 481

Moral panic versus the risk society: the implications of the changing sites of social anxiety

2001 · Sheldon Ungar · British Journal of Sociology · 334

Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other

2004 · Scott Poynting, Greg Noble, et al. · e-space (Manchester Metropolitan University) · 287

In the Name of ‘Childhood Innocence’: A Discursive Exploration of the Moral Panic Associated with Childhood and Sexuality

1970 · Kerry Robinson · Cultural Studies Review · 193

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Reporting disability in the age of austerity: the changing face of media representation of disability and disabled people in the United Kingdom and the creation of new ‘folk devils’

2013 · Emma Briant, Nick Watson, et al. · Disability & Society · 178

The Art of Being Black

1996 · Claire E Alexander · 168

‘A really hostile environment’: Adiaphorization, global policing and the crimmigration control system

2018 · Ben Bowling, Sophie Westenra · Theoretical Criminology · 148

Out of Place in the Country: Travellers and the “rural Idyll”

1996 · Keith H. Halfacree · Antipode · 146

Folk devils and moral panics:

2013 · David W. Gutzke · Manchester University Press eBooks · 122

Suite Revenge?: The Shaping of Folk Devils and Moral Panics about White-Collar Crimes

2008 · M. Levi · The British Journal of Criminology · 122

The art of being black: the creation of black British youth identities

1997 · Choice Reviews Online · 119

Moral Panic and the Politics of Anxiety

2012 · Routledge eBooks · 95

The Active Aging Agenda, Old Folk Devils and a New Moral Panic

2011 · Elizabeth C.J. Pike · Sociology of Sport Journal · 82

Beyond folk devil resistance: Linking moral panic and moral regulation

2011 · Sean P. Hier, Dan Lett, et al. · Criminology & Criminal Justice · 77

Folk devils and racist imaginaries in a global prism: Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in the twenty-first century

2012 · Pnina Werbner · Ethnic and Racial Studies · 71

Informers and the Transition in Northern Ireland

2011 · R. Dudai · The British Journal of Criminology · 64

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Incurable Sex Offenders, Lousy Judges & The Media: Moral Panic Sustenance in the Age of New Media

2012 · Kathryn J. Fox · American Journal of Criminal Justice · 58

Foreign, criminal: a doubly damned modern British folk-devil

2017 · Melanie Griffiths · Citizenship Studies · 57

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‘help! the poles are coming’: narrating a contemporary moral panic

2006 · Roos Pijpers · Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography · 57

Works count: 503

Citation count: 13,280