If hysteria is something of the past, why is it so present now? Bringing together the dispersed debates from social history, philosophy, feminist theory, criminology, psychoanalysis, anthropology and cultural studies with empirical research, this book offers a new single conceptual framework for the study of mass hysteria.

Marc Schuilenburg is Professor at the Faculty of Criminal Law and Criminology at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is the author of the critically and publicly acclaimed book The Securitization of Society.

Foreword by Jeff Ferrell 1.Hysteria is Dead, Long Live Hysteria 2.The Fathers of Hysteria 3.Hobbes' War 4.Would the Real Human Being Please Stand Up? 5.From Minority Report to Reporting Minorities 6.So You Think You Can Participate? 7.Race Riots in Rotterdam 8.The Success Paradox