Social Panics & Phantom Attackers: A Study of Imaginary Assailants

by Robert E. Bartholomew and Paul Weatherhead

This book provides an accessible overview of one particular type of social panic: that of the phantom attacker. Such panics are characterised by outbreaks of sensational claims of attacks by mysterious figures that seem to emerge from nowhere, attack their innocent human and animal victims, only to vanish without a trace. Taking the recent wave of needle-spiking reports in Europe as a starting point, this book does more than just catalogue such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9819742714
• ISBN13: 9789819742714
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"