The statutory rape crisis: a moral panic?

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dc.contributor.advisorO'Sullivan, Catherineen
dc.contributor.authorBuckley, Lydia
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-25T08:26:58Z
dc.date.available2016-05-25T08:26:58Z
dc.date.issued2016
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dc.description.abstractIn this thesis I argue that the statutory rape crisis which materialised following the decisions in CC v Ireland and A v The Governor of Arbour Hill Prison, was a moral panic. I also contend that Mr A, a convicted sex offender who was released during the crisis, was a folk devil. Using data obtained from an ethnographic content analysis of a selection of newspapers, interest group statements, and Oireachtas debates, I demonstrate that the social response to the statutory rape crisis exhibits the key indicators of the moral panic phenomenon put forward by Goode and Ben-Yehuda. These key indicators are: concern, consensus, hostility, disproportionality and volatility. I employ the theory of moral panic to explain why the events of the statutory rape crisis ignited such emotion and why Mr A became a folk devil of the moral panicen
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dc.identifier.citationBuckley, L. 2016. The statutory rape crisis: a moral panic?. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/2617
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dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.rights© 2016, Lydia Buckley.en
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dc.subjectChild abuseen
dc.subjectMoral panicen
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dc.titleThe statutory rape crisis: a moral panic?en
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD (Law)en
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