Stuart hall

• What’s is this study called?

  The policing crisis
• What is the study about?

  A moral panic over mugging in the 1970s
• What is meant by mugging as a concept?


  It was imported from the us and tended to refer to being robbed by ‘black me’
• Who reported these incidents

  Several newspapers
• What was this moral panic built upon?

  The idea of a collective fear of an ‘enemy within’
• What does halls ‘full social theory of deviance‘ look at?

  The idea of the black mugger as a scrapegoat for other social ills of the 1970s
• What did the strikes do?

  It bought about civil unrest and challenges social order and the power of the state
• What is Halls point about the black mugger?

  By making it something to fear, it solidified a fractured UK society around the state every though instances of mugging actually did not increase as quickly
• What did society allow the state to do?

  To randomly stop and search black youths under the SUS law
• What did this labelling lead too?

  the Labelling of black youths led to a process of deviancy amplification
• What does this study recognise?

  The impact of politics as crime statistics (strength)
• What is a strength of this study?

  It acknowledges the impact of the media and moral panics on society
• What does labelling of young black men do to society?


  Labelling of younger black men by the police explains why they are 7x more likely to be stopped and searched than a white man