A Fish Rots from the Head: How Powerful Moral Entrepreneurs Manufacture Folk Devils

Matt Clement (author)

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Title	A Fish Rots from the Head: How Powerful Moral Entrepreneurs Manufacture Folk Devils
Contributor	Matt Clement (author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-13-6
License	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Publisher	Helsinki University Press
Published on	2021-12-13
Long abstract	Drawing mainly on examples from France and the United Kingdom, this chapter examines the actors and institutions that carry out particular forms of victimization through prejudice, and analyses the mechanism employed by state actors to create or even boost climates of fear. Through this, the text shows how it is often those labelling others as folk devils that in the end constitute the greatest threats to society.
Keywords	Folk devils moral panic victimization climate of fear state

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Matt Clement

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Department of Applied Social Sciences, Forensics and Politics at University of Winchester

Matt Clement lectures Criminology at the University of Winchester. He is a socialist and anti-racist activist and author of 'A Peoples History of Riots, Protest and the Law: The sound of the crowd' (2016). He is currently editing a new collection, 'No Justice, No Police? Protest and the Politics of Social Change' .

Drawing mainly on examples from France and the United Kingdom, this chapter examines the actors and institutions that carry out particular forms of victimization through prejudice, and analyses the mechanism employed by state actors to create or even boost climates of fear. Through this, the text shows how it is often those labelling others as folk devils that in the end constitute the greatest threats to society.