Moral Panics, Mental Illness Stigma, and the Deinstitutionalization Movement in American Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9783319838724 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 191 str.

Anthony Carlton Cooke

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Popular Panics 

2. From the “Feebleminded Offender” to the “Sexual Psychopath”

3. Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of the “Slasher”

4. The Forensic Detective as Panic Figure

5. The Panic Figure and the Psychopath: A Psychical Correspondence

Conclusion

O autorze

Anthony Carlton Cooke is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University, USA. His work has been published in journals such as Journal of Black Studies and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. In addition to his academic work, Anthony has published poetry and fiction in the African American Review and the Arkansas Review.