OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper is to describe the role of prominent paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow in the controversy surrounding the diagnosis of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP) in mothers accused of murdering their children. CONCLUSION The MSBP saga is a further chapter of an era of moral panic that started several decades ago with repressed memory therapy, satanic ritual abuse...

Social networks string everyone together. In the world affected by COVID-19 pandemic, residents left their houses less often and maintained connections online. Preparing for longer periods at home, some customers stockpiled supplies, most discussed of which being toilet paper. When internet users came across videos empty store shelves people boasting about amount paper they obtained, public con...

This article examines the British media's construction of forced marriage (FM) as an urgent social problem in a context where other forms of violence against women are not similarly problematized. A detailed analysis of four British newspapers over a 10-year period demonstrates that media reporting of FM constitutes a moral panic in that it is constructed as a cultural problem that threatens Br...