Moral Panic by Philip Jenkins
This study traces shifting social responses to adult sexual contacts with children. The author explores how and why concern about the sexual offender has fluctuated in North America since the late-19th century, placing reactions to the problem in a broad political and cultural context.Philip Jenkins is Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He has published widely on contemporary religious themes, including New Age and esoteric movements, and is the author most recently of The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice
and the highly acclaimed The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300073874 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300073879 |
| Title | Moral Panic |
| Author | Philip Jenkins |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 1998-09-10 |
| Number of pages | 310 |
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