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Innocent Demons... will distinguish itself from other works on youth Internet safety primarily by viewing youth Internet safety issues through a more critical lens. The broad majority of work published on youth Internet safety issues has remained largely accepting of the policies and actions of legislators and private industry, ignoring the ways in which deviance plays a role in everyday online life. The work which has been more critical of youth Internet safety discourses has largely situated their argument within the moral panic framework – a key sociological concept which I seek to examine and extend. Specifically, my work introduces post-structuralist theory to the moral panic framework, describing reactions which may appear “disproportionate” as the maintenance and reproduction of dominant discourses. [Note: I'm not yet sure how to distinguish myself from Hall, et. al – I haven't read the entire book yet (Policing the Crisis) so I'm not sure how close they come to doing the same work but without “discourse” or a more Foucaultian notion of power...]