Chas Critcher
Biographic Data
| ID | 266650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chas Critcher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chas |
| FAMILY NAME | Critcher |
| SIGNATURE | CRITCHER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield City Council |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 913 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Policing the Crisis
As relevant as it was at the time of publication, this landmark work remains timely and urgent in demonstrating how to examine questions of race, politics and crime in contemporary society. A formative text in cultural studies and criminology, it shows the relevance of conjunctural analysis to the current emergence of forms of authoritarian populist politics. Examining the crisis of the British state in the 1970s, the book explores how interactin…
Flashpoints
This book, first published in 1989, examines how a seemingly trivial incident can act as a flashpoint for wider disturbances. It investigates the underlying causes, the immediate context of the events, and the communication between police and crowd that takes place within them. The authors’ findings are based on first-hand research into case studies of political demonstrations, community disorder and industrial picketing in South Yorkshire, UK ov…
Flashpoints
Revisiting Moral Panics
Revisiting Moral Panics
Policing the Crisis
The Social Production of News
Serving the Nation
Football Since the War - 1
Moral Panics in the Contemporary World
Moral Panics in the Contemporary World represents the best current theoretical and empirical work on the topic, taken from the international conference on moral panics held at Brunel University. The range of contributors, from established scholars to emerging ones in the field, and from a working journalist as well, helps to cover a wide range of moral panics, both old and new, and extend the geographical scope of moral panic analysis to previous…
Screen Savers. Case Histories of Social Reaction to Mass Media, Children and Violence
Historically the mass media have often been blamed for causing violent behaviour by children and young people. Two case studies of new media, film and video games, are compared in terms of their emergence, reactions to them and outcomes of the debate, mainly in the USA and Britain. Both cases are used to test the sociological model of moral panic which is found to be of limited application. It needs to be supplemented by two other concepts, thos…
For a political economy of moral panics
A case is made for a political economy of moral panics and moral regulation. After a brief discussion of the political economy of alcohol regulation, the focus shifts to the culture-of-fear thesis. Four writers (Glassner, Altheide, Furedi and Bauman) are interrogated for what they have to say about the culture of fear. Examined are its definition and manifestations; its historical genesis; its key agents and their motivations; how the culture of …
Structures, cultures, and biographies
Widening The Focus
Journal Article Widening The Focus: Moral Panics as Moral Regulation Get access Chas Critcher Chas Critcher * *Visiting Professor in Media and Communications, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK. Contact details: 15 Meadowhead, Sheffield S8 7UA, UK; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 49, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 17–3…
Moral Panic Analysis
Contemporary news events indicate the continuing relevance of moral panic analysis. Of two versions one is British, formulated by Stan Cohen, exemplified by the 1970s emergence of mugging. The second is American, formulated by Goode and Ben‐Yehuda, exemplified by the 1980s missing children campaign. Each model conceptualises the agents and dynamics of moral panics, their causes and consequences. The models have been applied mainly to seven main a…
Media, Government and Moral Panic
Following the murder of an eight-year-old girl in July 2000, a British newspaper, the News of the World , campaigned to change the law on paedophile crimes. Most of its demands were eventually met. The narrative has four episodes: the initial campaign, popular vigilantism, political response and further debate and action following the murderer's conviction. A moral panic framework is shown to be applicable but ultimately an inadequate explanatory…
Policing Pit Closures, 1984–1992
Policing Pit Closures, 1984–1992
Still Raving’
In the late 1980s and early 1990s there emerged in the UK a new youth cultural phenomenon, the rave. Subsequently transformed into clubbing, it is now a significant part of the leisure activities of young people well into their 20s. Reconstructing its history reveals the development of rave culture through the confluence of innovations in music, drugs and dance and the largely negative social reaction from media, police and government. Three pers…
Utilizing The Delphi Technique In Policy Discussion
A challenge for social policy makers is to explore consensus and dissensus in issues where approaches such as roundtable meetings and focus groups are not feasible or likely to provide accurate information. The Delphi survey technique is a powerful tool for exploring social policy issues not as widely used as it deserves. This article explores Delphi and describes its application to a major and highly contentious public policy issue; how the elec…
Keeping the Red Flag Flying? A Comparative Study of Two Worker Takeovers in the British Deep Coalmining Industry, 1992-1997
Is there anything on the box? Leisure studies and media studies
This article reviews the contemporary state of British media studies, concentrating on those areas where links may be forged with leisure studies. The separate development of media studies and leisure studies is initially noted. Discussion is organized under five headings: ownership and control, form and content, the audience, theories and new technology. Each contains a summary of questions and areas of concern common to media and leisure studie…
A communication in response to ‘Leisure and status
The future of leisure
Sport and society
The Devil Makes Work
Policing the Crisis
As relevant as it was at the time of publication, this landmark work remains timely and urgent in demonstrating how to examine questions of race, politics and crime in contemporary society. A formative text in cultural studies and criminology, it shows the relevance of conjunctural analysis to the current emergence of forms of authoritarian populist politics. Examining the crisis of the British state in the 1970s, the book explores how interactin…
Widening The Focus
Journal Article Widening The Focus: Moral Panics as Moral Regulation Get access Chas Critcher Chas Critcher * *Visiting Professor in Media and Communications, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK. Contact details: 15 Meadowhead, Sheffield S8 7UA, UK; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 49, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 17–3…
Moral Panic Analysis
Contemporary news events indicate the continuing relevance of moral panic analysis. Of two versions one is British, formulated by Stan Cohen, exemplified by the 1970s emergence of mugging. The second is American, formulated by Goode and Ben‐Yehuda, exemplified by the 1980s missing children campaign. Each model conceptualises the agents and dynamics of moral panics, their causes and consequences. The models have been applied mainly to seven main a…
Media, Government and Moral Panic
Following the murder of an eight-year-old girl in July 2000, a British newspaper, the News of the World , campaigned to change the law on paedophile crimes. Most of its demands were eventually met. The narrative has four episodes: the initial campaign, popular vigilantism, political response and further debate and action following the murderer's conviction. A moral panic framework is shown to be applicable but ultimately an inadequate explanatory…
For a political economy of moral panics
A case is made for a political economy of moral panics and moral regulation. After a brief discussion of the political economy of alcohol regulation, the focus shifts to the culture-of-fear thesis. Four writers (Glassner, Altheide, Furedi and Bauman) are interrogated for what they have to say about the culture of fear. Examined are its definition and manifestations; its historical genesis; its key agents and their motivations; how the culture of …
Still Raving’
In the late 1980s and early 1990s there emerged in the UK a new youth cultural phenomenon, the rave. Subsequently transformed into clubbing, it is now a significant part of the leisure activities of young people well into their 20s. Reconstructing its history reveals the development of rave culture through the confluence of innovations in music, drugs and dance and the largely negative social reaction from media, police and government. Three pers…
Utilizing The Delphi Technique In Policy Discussion
A challenge for social policy makers is to explore consensus and dissensus in issues where approaches such as roundtable meetings and focus groups are not feasible or likely to provide accurate information. The Delphi survey technique is a powerful tool for exploring social policy issues not as widely used as it deserves. This article explores Delphi and describes its application to a major and highly contentious public policy issue; how the elec…
Keeping the Red Flag Flying? A Comparative Study of Two Worker Takeovers in the British Deep Coalmining Industry, 1992-1997
Police Performance and State Rule
Radical Theorists of Sport
The recent and exceptional attempts of Gruneau and Hargreaves to develop a radical theory of sport are evaluated. The considerable advances they make to appropriate sport as a cultural formation are offset against the need to integrate consideration of gender, leisure, and the institutional conservatism of sport into the analysis
A communication in response to ‘Leisure and status
Is there anything on the box? Leisure studies and media studies
This article reviews the contemporary state of British media studies, concentrating on those areas where links may be forged with leisure studies. The separate development of media studies and leisure studies is initially noted. Discussion is organized under five headings: ownership and control, form and content, the audience, theories and new technology. Each contains a summary of questions and areas of concern common to media and leisure studie…
Sport and society
Policing the Crisis
The Social Production of News
Working Class Culture
The Devil Makes Work
Police Performance and State Rule
Radical Theorists of Sport
The recent and exceptional attempts of Gruneau and Hargreaves to develop a radical theory of sport are evaluated. The considerable advances they make to appropriate sport as a cultural formation are offset against the need to integrate consideration of gender, leisure, and the institutional conservatism of sport into the analysis
The Devil Makes Work
Sport and society
A communication in response to ‘Leisure and status
The future of leisure
Is there anything on the box? Leisure studies and media studies
This article reviews the contemporary state of British media studies, concentrating on those areas where links may be forged with leisure studies. The separate development of media studies and leisure studies is initially noted. Discussion is organized under five headings: ownership and control, form and content, the audience, theories and new technology. Each contains a summary of questions and areas of concern common to media and leisure studie…
Utilizing The Delphi Technique In Policy Discussion
A challenge for social policy makers is to explore consensus and dissensus in issues where approaches such as roundtable meetings and focus groups are not feasible or likely to provide accurate information. The Delphi survey technique is a powerful tool for exploring social policy issues not as widely used as it deserves. This article explores Delphi and describes its application to a major and highly contentious public policy issue; how the elec…
Keeping the Red Flag Flying? A Comparative Study of Two Worker Takeovers in the British Deep Coalmining Industry, 1992-1997
Policing Pit Closures, 1984–1992
Policing Pit Closures, 1984–1992
Still Raving’
In the late 1980s and early 1990s there emerged in the UK a new youth cultural phenomenon, the rave. Subsequently transformed into clubbing, it is now a significant part of the leisure activities of young people well into their 20s. Reconstructing its history reveals the development of rave culture through the confluence of innovations in music, drugs and dance and the largely negative social reaction from media, police and government. Three pers…
Media, Government and Moral Panic
Following the murder of an eight-year-old girl in July 2000, a British newspaper, the News of the World , campaigned to change the law on paedophile crimes. Most of its demands were eventually met. The narrative has four episodes: the initial campaign, popular vigilantism, political response and further debate and action following the murderer's conviction. A moral panic framework is shown to be applicable but ultimately an inadequate explanatory…
Moral Panic Analysis
Contemporary news events indicate the continuing relevance of moral panic analysis. Of two versions one is British, formulated by Stan Cohen, exemplified by the 1970s emergence of mugging. The second is American, formulated by Goode and Ben‐Yehuda, exemplified by the 1980s missing children campaign. Each model conceptualises the agents and dynamics of moral panics, their causes and consequences. The models have been applied mainly to seven main a…
Widening The Focus
Journal Article Widening The Focus: Moral Panics as Moral Regulation Get access Chas Critcher Chas Critcher * *Visiting Professor in Media and Communications, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK. Contact details: 15 Meadowhead, Sheffield S8 7UA, UK; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 49, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 17–3…
Structures, cultures, and biographies
For a political economy of moral panics
A case is made for a political economy of moral panics and moral regulation. After a brief discussion of the political economy of alcohol regulation, the focus shifts to the culture-of-fear thesis. Four writers (Glassner, Altheide, Furedi and Bauman) are interrogated for what they have to say about the culture of fear. Examined are its definition and manifestations; its historical genesis; its key agents and their motivations; how the culture of …
Screen Savers. Case Histories of Social Reaction to Mass Media, Children and Violence
Historically the mass media have often been blamed for causing violent behaviour by children and young people. Two case studies of new media, film and video games, are compared in terms of their emergence, reactions to them and outcomes of the debate, mainly in the USA and Britain. Both cases are used to test the sociological model of moral panic which is found to be of limited application. It needs to be supplemented by two other concepts, thos…
Policing the Crisis
The Social Production of News
Serving the Nation
Football Since the War - 1
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (10 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Moral panic (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social science (7 works)