Neo-Marxist View on Moral Panic

• Neo-Marxists see it as important to investigate who power to define deviance and to explain why some groups come to be identified as 'Folk Devils' in the 1st place
• Hall et al. (1978) was a Neo-Marxist who studied Moral Panics
• Hall et al. was a Neo-Marxist who studied Moral Panics in 1978
• Hall et al. (1978) believed that Moral Panics serve an ideological function to support Capitalism
• Hall et al. (1978) argued the emergence of the use of the term 'Mugging' in the UK and the way in which it was introduced and used to generate a moral panic
• Hall et al. (1978) argued that the term 'Mugging' was applied to the behaviour of young working-class black men to cause division between the black & white working class
• Hall et al. (1978) argued that the term 'Mugging' was a Moral Panic to take attention away from the economic problems caused by Capitalism and allowed laws to be introduced that could be used to repress other groups that opposed Capitalism