The role of presidential rhetoric in the creation of a moral panic: Reagan, bush, and the war on drugs

Deviant Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 419-445

  Hawdon, James E ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1080/01639620152472813     Document Type: Article

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