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	Moral panic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A moral panic is a reaction by a group of people based on the false or exaggerated perception that some cultural behavior or group, frequently a minority group or a subculture, is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society.
		Moral panics (as defined by Stanley Cohen) revolve around a perceived threat to a value or norm held by a society normally stimulated by glorification within the mass media or 'folk legend' within societies.
		Panics have a number of outcomes, the most poignant being the certification to the players within the panic that what they are doing appears to warrant observation by mass media and therefore may push them further into the activities that lead to the original feeling of moral panic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moral_panic (890 words)

	Online Dating - Moral Panic - M/Cyclopedia of New Media
		Moral Panics stem from specific moral groups within mainstream society and cultural factors that consider the event,information or new trend to be of " morally sensitive" nature.
		Moral panics due to language and the use of it cause society and hence the media concern.
		Bullying in schools is another moral panic that society,academics and the media are expressing their distaste at the 'morally sensitive' nature of bullying.
	wiki.media-culture.org.au /index.php?title=Online_Dating_-_Moral_Panic&printable=yes (569 words)

	Moral panic \| Turnabout
		A moral panic is a mass movement based on the perception that some individual or group, frequently a minority group or a subculture, is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society.
		These panics are generally fuelled by media coverage of social issues (although semi-spontaneous moral panics do occur), and often include a large element of mass hysteria.
		A moral panic is specifically framed in terms of morality, and usually expressed as outrage rather than unadulterated fear.
	turnabout.ath.cx:8000 /node/1350 (523 words)

	mass media: folk devils and moral panics
		She still sees the moral panic as a means to social control, but sees the conservatives and the right nowadays as frantically creating moral panics, 'to the extent that the panics are no longer about social control butt rather about the fear of being out of control'.
		Nowadays, she says, the notion of the moral panic has become such common currency that journalists readily put the question to politicians whether they are not deliberately whipping up a panic.
		Moral panics are also continually and often very effectively contested by the various pressure groups which have sprung up to fill the vacuum left by the absence of an effective political opposition.
	www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk /MUHome/cshtml/media/fdevdet.html (1242 words)

	Kenneth Thompson. Moral Panics
		Moral panic promised sociologists a potentially powerful tool, as they would be able to declare that the social reactions to specific threats were overblown and unwarranted.
		Thus with the moral panic over mugging, he eschews the questions of whether this crime was increasing or whether people's fears were proportionate.
		Thompson's claim that moral panics are becoming more frequent and pervasive is in direct contrast with McRobbie and Thornton's (1995) assertion that they are becoming less frequent and harder to constitute as folk devils now fight back.
	www.ualberta.ca /~cjscopy/reviews/moralpanics.html (693 words)

	AcademicDB - What is a 'moral panic'?
		A moral panic could be described as a feeling by members of a society that the procedures we have in place such as legislation are not effective and need to be changed in order to benefit society.
		These panics can arise from many different sources such as against crime or even people or corporations that are involved with things that the majority in society oppose or feel is not the norm.
		It is important to mention that moral panics existed long before a term was used to label them as such.
	www.academicdb.com /is_a_moral_panic_13419 (247 words)

	Moral Panics
		"Moral panics then, are those processes whereby members of a society and culture become 'morally sensitized' to the challenges and menaces posed to 'their' accepted values and ways of life, by the activities of groups defined as deviant.
		Moral panics seek some sort of resolution and this often comes with a change in the law, designed to further penalise those established as the threatening deviants at the source of the panic ("New clampdown on devil-worshippers".
		A classic, recent example of moral panic in the UK was the Sarah Payne case, which led to changes in the existing Sex Offenders Register (wider access, a shorter time for offenders to register).
	www.mediaknowall.com /violence/moralpanicnotes.html (525 words)

	The Construction of School Violence as a "Moral Panic" by Donna Killingbeck - JCJPC, Volume 8, Issue 3
		The discussion is situated within Stanley Cohen’s stages of a "moral panic." The article concludes that the presentation of specific events (i.e., school shootings) and elements of popular culture have contributed to increasing levels of fear, misguided political policy, and the development of an industry focused on school violence.
		During a moral panic, public anxiety is amplified by publicity in the press which portrays these events as signifying a widespread and deeper moral malaise and as a sign of social disintegration.
		In light of the dramatic and often detrimental effects a moral panic has on policy decisions and levels of societal fear, it is imperative that the images and definitions of school violence be expanded and integrated.
	www.albany.edu /scj/jcjpc/vol8is3/killingbeck.html (5845 words)

	The American Drug Panic of the 1980s
		As we saw, not only is media attention to a given condition one measure of the moral panic—relative to its threat—but exaggerations of the seriousness of the condition by media or movement representatives can also be taken as an indicator of whether a society is in the throes of a moral panic.
		As we see, the drug panic was constructed for a variety of reasons; a number of these reasons are subjective factors and have little, if anything, to do with the concrete damage or harm inflicted on the society by the use of illegal psychoactive substances.
		While the American drug panic of the late 1980s was not a classic or perfect case of a moral panic, it was a moral panic nonetheless.
	www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/lsd/panic.htm (7863 words)

	Places to Go, People to Be Issue 25: Role-Playing Games and the Christian Right
		From Cohen's perspective, a moral panic is a process by which a sector of society receives a collective, stereotyped identity imposed from outside their community, characterised by generalised definitions, exaggerated reports and is defined in relation to a perceived threat against the social and moral order.
		Typically, the target of a moral panic is a group or phenomenon that has been in existence for many years but has only recently come to the attention of the mass media and general public via a prominent event or issue which demands media attention.
		The RPG moral panic was indeed the product of a generalisation against an existing sub-culture implanted from outside according to overt generalisations, publicised through the mass media, based on anecdotal urban myths rather than verifiable evidence and was pursued by "right thinking people" who used their social standing to attack perceived sites of deviance.
	ptgptb.org /0025/moral.html (9301 words)

	Society's moral panic attacks - all grist for the media mill - On Line Opinion - 16/8/2004
		Moral panics are a phenomenon of modern Western cultures and reflect changes sweeping through those societies, people's mixed experience with new technologies and the collapse of confidence in established institutions.
		Whether the moral panic involves the accessibility of Internet pornography to children, clergy that are habitual sexual abusers of children, mobile phones that take and transmit digital photographs or cloning and stem cell research, the fears all have a basis in reality.
		Moral panic sells television time and newspapers and it should not come as a surprise that it is the so-called early evening 'current affairs' programs on commercial networks and elements of the tabloid press that play on the fears.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=2455 (1736 words)

	Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » The Concept of Moral Panic
		“Moral panic” is like a lot of terms that historians and other scholars use, an analytic shorthand that compresses complex episodes and events, a claim that certain events share an underlying structure, both in their progression and in their underlying cause.
		I’m inclined to argue that moral panic is only useful to talk about modern publics and media forms, and to be skeptical about folding the concept into some larger universal claims about mass hysteria or the “madness of crowds”.
		Moral panics are frequently equated with “witch hunts” and “hysteria.” And since there were no witches, the subtext is often that the underlying phenomenon does not exist.
	weblogs.swarthmore.edu /burke/?p=172 (2863 words)

	AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Sex, Lies, and Moral Panics
		Don't panic, but if your child is a college student, she or he is likely to be having lots of casual sex with a random string of partners.
		Moral entrepreneurs often focus on sexual issues because they stand in proxy for deeper structural and ideological issues, like gender and power, that test the boundaries of what is considered normal, deYoung says.
		In the case of abortion and same-sex marriage, moral panic has led to the passage of laws that restrict both practices, while ignoring underlying issues like family planning and family stability that have real a impact on the number of unintended pregnancies and the general health of our society.
	www.alternet.org /rights/26131 (2074 words)

	Protecting our children from Internet smut: moral duty or moral panic? Humanist - Find Articles
		The term moral panic is one of the more useful concepts to have emerged from sociology in recent years.
		A moral panic is characterized by a wave of public concern, anxiety, and fervor about something, usually perceived as a threat to society.
		Moral panics of recent memory include the Joseph McCarthy anti-communist witchhunts of the 1950s and the satanic ritual abuse allegations of the 1980s.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1374/is_n5_v57/ai_19804297 (732 words)

	jessp2
		The first published reference to ‘moral panic’ was by the British sociologist Jock Young, in 1971, he was investigating the escalating public concern over the apparently alarming increase of drug abuse.
		Cohen says that “one of the most recurrent types of moral panic in Britain since the war has been associated with the emergence of various forms of youth culture whose behaviour is deviant or delinquent” (p9).
		The reason it is called a moral panic is because the perceived threat is believed to be a threat to social order or to something that is held sacred by or fundamental to the society (Thompson, 1998, pp8).
	www.arasite.org /jessp2.html (3414 words)

	Moral Panics
		According to Cohen, society is often subject to such instances and periods of moral panic; an occurrence which is characterised by ‘stylized and stereotypical’ representation by the mass media, and a tendency for those ‘in power’ (politicians, bishops, editors and so on) to man the ‘moral barricades’ and pronounce judgement.
		In order to determine whether a moral panic was at hand during the Clacton disturbances, Cohen looked at the reaction of five segments of society: ‘the press, the public, agents of social control, or law enforcement, lawmakers and politicians, and action groups’.
		Additionally, the ‘actors in the drama of the moral panic’, particularly the press in orchestrating the panic, remain constant, as will be shown in the case of the ‘paedophile panic’ and the path leading up to it, which follows.
	www.aber.ac.uk /media/Students/lcs9603.html (3297 words)

	Research Papers on Moral panic.
		Moral Panic Moral Panic is that feeling of fear and threat that spreads between the members of a certain society when crimes that threat them and their moral order happen in their society.
		The subject of the panic is usually not a suddenly new phenomenon, but something which has been in existence for many years, and suddenly comes to society's and the media's attention.
		Moral panics have happened throughout the years, though; video games were merely the latest form to feed society's concerns about their children.
	www.researchover.com /termpaper/Moral_panic-147312.html (170 words)

	Moral panic and alternative identity construction in Usenet
		While the instigators of a moral panic normally feel that they are justified in publicizing an issue, it may also be the case that moral panics can have detractors, who suspect that the situation is not as clear-cut as is being made out, or that such an escalatory response is unnecessary.
		Clearly, the moral panic emerged as a result of a debate concerning homophobia and censorship that was taking place in the media, and had reached a crisis point with the apparent censorship of the male-male kiss on Melrose Place.
		However, this "micro" moral panic followed the same pattern as other moral panics: it began with a undesirable problem (homophobia) requiring a solution; it progressed through various stages, which were not ideally linear, but did have a sense of progression in that more stringent measures were applied as time passed.
	jcmc.indiana.edu /vol7/issue1/baker.html (6577 words)

	Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
		Moral panics are usually fanned by the media and led by community leaders or groups intent on changing laws or practices.
		Sociologists are less interested in the validity of the claims made during moral panics than they are with the dynamics of social change and the organizational strategies of moral entrepreneurs.
		Moral panics gather converts because they touch on people's fears and because they also use specific events or problems as symbols of what many feel to represent ‘all that is wrong with the nation’.
	bitbucket.icaap.org /dict.pl?term=MORAL+PANIC (142 words)

	BJSOnline - 'Moral Panic' and moral language in the media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It traces the evolution of the term in academic sociology and criminology, its adoption by the media in the mid 1980s and its subsequent employment in the national press.
		This is a more speculative analysis of the term, drawing on the work of moral philosophers and attempting to predict how 'moral panic' may develop in the future.
		'Moral panic', I suggest, is an unsatisfactory form of moral language which may adversely affect the media's ability to handle moral issues seriously.
	www.lse.ac.uk /serials/Bjs/mora497.htm (257 words)

	Amazon.com: Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America: Books: Philip Jenkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When facts became panics, the problem was buried under political self gain and the requisite rhetoric: from the F.B.I. vying for funds and power against the newly created Federal Bureau of Narcotics, to the feminist blame of the "patriarchy," to the conservative cry of decadence.
		Those who coined it define moral panic as a state in which public reaction to a problem "is out of all proportions to the actual threat offered, when 'experts' perceive the threat in all but identical terms...
		What makes Moral Panic absorbing is not so much Jenkins' diagnosis of the present situation as his careful reconstruction of how medical and legal institutions came to recognize and understand the existence of molestation.
	www.amazon.com /Moral-Panic-Changing-Concepts-Molester/dp/0300073879 (1574 words)

	Essay: Moral Panics, when morons speak up and are heard. - Coursework.Info
		Essay: Moral Panics, when morons speak up and are heard.
		Moral Panics, when morons speak up and are heard.
		Often associated with the modernising liberation of the 1960's, perhaps one of the earliest examples of a societal moral panic is that of the Rock 'n' Roll concern of the 1950's though more commonly attached to the 'provocative' acts of Elvis Presley and others.
	www.coursework.info /A2_and_A-Level/Media_Studies/Moral_Panics_when_morons_speak_up_and_are_heard_L35735.html (293 words)

	This panic won't create air safety - The Boston Globe
		SOCIOLOGISTS USE the term ``moral panic" to describe a sudden episode of hysterical behavior set off by exaggerated threats and fueled by endlessly reiterated stories of dangerous behavior.
		But because we were in the midst of a moral panic, it would prove impossible to discuss Catherine Mayo's psychological problems without pondering lessons about how to protect ourselves against our enemies.
		Although moral panics sometimes emerge spontaneously from below, in most cases they are orchestrated by leaders with an agenda.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/08/23/this_panic_wont_create_air_safety (800 words)

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		The first is that lawyers should ask themselves whether the entire saga was yet another example of an outbreak of “moral panic” leading to hasty and ill considered legislation.
		The problem with moral panic inspired legislation is that it not only lacks a rational basis, but it tramples on basic constitutional principles and perverts the law of evidence in the process.
		PANIC ATTACK The events that predate the proposed new dog control measures seem to support the moral panic hypothesis.
	www.manukau.ac.nz /departments/business/powerpoints/moral_panic.doc (2416 words)

	Meth mouth, our latest moral panic. By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
		Moral panics rip through cultures, observed sociologist Stanley Cohen in 1972, whenever "experts" and the "right-thinking" folks in the press, government, and the clergy exaggerate the danger a group or thing poses to society.
		For the last year, a moral panic about methamphetamine and its users has been gathering force, and last week it peaked as Slate's corporate sibling, Newsweek magazine, joined the crusade with a cover story.
		If you were to reduce the current moral panic to a single image, it would be a photo of a meth user whose gums are pus-streaked and whose rotting teeth—what teeth he still has—are flened and broken.
	www.slate.com /id/2124160 (2013 words)

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