The epidemic of scandals unleashed by the Savile Scandal highlights the precarious status of relations of trust. The rapid escalation of this crisis offers insights into the relationship between anxieties about childhood and the wider moral order. This book explains why western society has become so uncomfortable with the exercise of authority.

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University of Kent, UK

Frank Furedi

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Frank Furedi, author and broadcaster, is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. He has written widely on the culture of fear. His work deals with the impact of fear on discussions of childhood, health, new technology and food, and investigates the interaction between risk consciousness and perceptions of fear and trust relations in contemporary society.

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Book Title: Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust
Book Subtitle: The Jimmy Savile Scandal
Authors: Frank Furedi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137338020
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-33801-3Published: 19 March 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-33802-0Published: 19 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 108
Topics: Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Sociology of Culture, Regional and Cultural Studies, Crime and Society

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