Introduction : Bringing moral panic studies into focus / Sean P. Hier -- Grounding and defending the sociology of moral panic / Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda -- Locating moral panics within the sociology of social problems / Joel Best -- Fractious rivals? Moral panics and moral regulation / Alan Hunt -- Shifting the focus? Moral panics as civilizing and decivilizing processes / Amanda Rohloff -- The objectification of fear and the grammar of morality / Frank Furedi -- How emotions matter to moral panics / Kevin Walby and Dale Spencer -- Folk devils reconsidered / Mary de Young -- The duality of the devil : realism, relationalism and representation / James Meades -- Panic, regulation, and the moralization of British law and order politics / Dan Lett ... [et al.] -- Drunken antics : the gin craze, binge drinking and the political economy of moral regulation / Chas Critcher -- The artful creation of global moral panic : climatic folk devils, environmental evangelicals, and the coming catastrophe / Sheldon Ungar -- When harm is done : panic, scandal and blame / Graham Knight and Juliet Roper -- The unhealthy risk society : health scares and the politics of moral panic / Daniel Béland