Following the initial arrests, accusations spread to other women in the community who expressed doubt about the claims or who responded to them in ways deemed improper or inappropriate. This particular moral panic served to reinforce and strengthen the social authority of local religious leaders, since witchcraft was perceived to be a threat to Christian values, laws, and order.
More recently, some sociologists have framed the " War on Drugs " of the s and '90s as an outcome of moral panic. News media attention to drug use, particularly use of crack cocaine among the urban Black underclass, focused public attention on drug use and its relationship to delinquency and crime.
The public concern generated through news reporting on this topic, including a feature in which then-First Lady Nancy Reagan participated in a drug raid, shored up voter support for drug laws that penalized the poor and working classes while ignoring drug use among the middle and upper classes. Many sociologists attribute the policies, laws, and sentencing guidelines connected to the "War on Drugs" with increased policing of poor urban neighborhoods and incarceration rates of residents of those communities.
Additional moral panics include public attention to "welfare queens," the notion that poor Black women are abusing the social services system while enjoying lives of luxury. In reality, welfare fraud is not very common , and no one racial group is more likely to commit it.
There is also moral panic around a so-called "gay agenda" that threatens the American way of life when members of the LGBTQ community simply want equal rights. In fact, many acts of domestic terrorism have been committed by non-Muslims. Updated by Nicki Lisa Cole, Ph.
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Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. Silverstone, Why Study the Media? London, Google Scholar. Croteau and W. Couldry, S. Livingstone and T. Poynting and G. Morgan eds Outrageous! Cohen, Folk Devils and Moral Panics , xxvi. Fox and R. Cohen, Folk Devils and Moral Panics , xxxiii. Cohen, Folk Devils and Moral Panics , xxxv. See, for example, D. See, for example, various contributions to S.
Hall and T. Thompson, Moral Panics , See also P. Hall et al. Goode and N. These were also two of the first youth subcultures in consumer society, and initially they existed peacefully side by side — they were really just about style and music and the members of each were primarily concerned with having a good time.
Once again at Brighton there was also some minor vandalism and violence between the mods and rockers, but this time the media were present and produced according to Cohen some extremely exaggerated reports about the extent of the violence between the two groups. This had the effect of generating concern among the general public and the police then responded to this increased public fear and perceived threat to social order by policing future mods and rockers events more heavily and being more likely to arrest youths from either subculture for deviant behaviour whether violent or not.
This really is just a case of a pure media constructed moral panic. The number of teens with serious gambling problems has increased, but this is due to changes in sampling over the two years:. Basically, the kids are alright! So teens are mainly playing actual cards with their friends, as well as the odd scratch card.
If you like this sort of thing, then you might like this related posts on the possible moral panic over video games disorder …. Police may have just found the culprit behind a horrific moggy murder spree which started in Croydon in October Three years ago, the decapitated bodies of cats began be show up in various locations around Croydon, South London.
Despite the hundreds of alleged cases reported to the police over the past three years, not one of them was ever linked with any actual hard evidence of an individual actually committing a crime. However, in three of the cases there was CCTV footage of foxes in the area carrying cat body parts.
Maybe this hit the headlines because humans love to make up stories, and construct outrageous villains, and the idea of a serial killer stalking our streets after our pets titillates us. We also need to consider the role of the moral entrepreneurs: i.
Finally, this in well with the place of our pets in our families. Pets, after all, are part of the family. At least according to the Personal Life Perspective.
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