00840pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002500040245007000065260000900135300001400144362001200158520050500170650001400675773001700689180718b2008   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aTsoukala, Anastassia  aBoundary-creating processes and the social construction of threat  c2008  ap.137-52.  aApr-Jun  aLooking at the key theoretical approaches to the social construction of threat in the sociology of deviance and in political science, this article addresses the way boundaries between groups are created in different contexts. Comparison between UK media coverage of terrorists and football hooligans reveals that this is a rational process that draws boundaries on the basis of the position of the target group in the political field rather than the objective seriousness of the threat. - Reproduced.  aTerrorism  aAlternatives