Intimate Enemies: Moral Panics in Contemporary Great Britain: Social Problems and Social Issues

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About the Author :
Philip Jenkins is Professor of History and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University. His publications include books as well as numerous articles in historical and criminological journals. His major interests involve the means by which social problems are constructed and presented in politics and the media.

Review :
-A thorough and informative study of how social panics about perceived moral dangers to children were created and maintained in the Britain of the 1980s. Jenkins (Pennsylvania State Univ.) examines the social context of changing values and political and economic climates supporting beliefs that child abuse, pedophilia, and even satanism were rampant threats to social order, to explain the panic over apparent ritual abuse of children that broke out in 1990-91... This solid, well-written contribution can be read profitably by everyone with an interest in modern British society. Undergraduate; graduate; faculty.- --M. J. Moore, Choice -Intimate Enemies describes the creation of a journalistically induced panic in Great Britain during the 1980s--a decade of intense concern about a closely related set of perceived problems: abuse of children, child pornography, satanic rituals, and serial murder. The book traces how such problems were reformulated in the course of the decade, and how they served as a focus for broadly held fears about changes in British society and national identity.... Intimate Enemies is an important addition to the field of collective behavior and social movements.- --Karen Glumm, American Journal of Sociology "A thorough and informative study of how social panics about perceived moral dangers to children were created and maintained in the Britain of the 1980s. Jenkins (Pennsylvania State Univ.) examines the social context of changing values and political and economic climates supporting beliefs that child abuse, pedophilia, and even satanism were rampant threats to social order, to explain the panic over apparent ritual abuse of children that broke out in 1990-91... This solid, well-written contribution can be read profitably by everyone with an interest in modern British society. Undergraduate; graduate; faculty." --M. J. Moore, Choice "Intimate Enemies describes the creation of a journalistically induced panic in Great Britain during the 1980s--a decade of intense concern about a closely related set of perceived problems: abuse of children, child pornography, satanic rituals, and serial murder. The book traces how such problems were reformulated in the course of the decade, and how they served as a focus for broadly held fears about changes in British society and national identity.... Intimate Enemies is an important addition to the field of collective behavior and social movements." --Karen Glumm, American Journal of Sociology "A thorough and informative study of how social panics about perceived moral dangers to children were created and maintained in the Britain of the 1980s. Jenkins (Pennsylvania State Univ.) examines the social context of changing values and political and economic climates supporting beliefs that child abuse, pedophilia, and even satanism were rampant threats to social order, to explain the panic over apparent ritual abuse of children that broke out in 1990-91... This solid, well-written contribution can be read profitably by everyone with an interest in modern British society. Undergraduate; graduate; faculty." --M. J. Moore, Choice "Intimate Enemies describes the creation of a journalistically induced panic in Great Britain during the 1980s--a decade of intense concern about a closely related set of perceived problems: abuse of children, child pornography, satanic rituals, and serial murder. The book traces how such problems were reformulated in the course of the decade, and how they served as a focus for broadly held fears about changes in British society and national identity.... Intimate Enemies is an important addition to the field of collective behavior and social movements." --Karen Glumm, American Journal of Sociology