Overview: Includes a foreword from Professor Dick Hobbs, Emeritus Professor, University of Essex, United Kingdom.Critically develops the historiography of moral panics, crime & deviance, with original analysis .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 disc
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