Stanley Cohen
Professor
Stanley Cohen (_), is the Martin White Professor of
Sociology at the
London School of Economics. A leading writer on
criminology, he is credited with coining the term
moral panic - in his 1972 study (
Folk Devils and Moral Panics) of the popular UK media and social reaction to the
Mods and Rockers phenomenon of the
1960s.
American-born Doctor Stanley Cohen, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine (1986), is a distinguished researcher and academic, associated with Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville.