The Objectification of Fear and the Grammar of Morality

Moral Panic and the Politics of Anxiety

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 90-103

  Furedi, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203869727     Document Type: Chapter

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