Folk devils and moral panics: 'Left idealism' reconsidered

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 387-410

  Cottee, Simon ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Left idealism'; History of ideas; Radical criminology; Young

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993790961     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136248060200600401     Document Type: Article

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