moral panics and media

• welfare scroungers


  Labelled as lazy and take the government benefit
• jennings- chavs


  seen as lazy and dumb in the UK and have negative media portrayal
• Muncie-football hooliganism


  Media made football fans seem violent troublemakers
• Goths


  Dark culture and media creates fear towards them
• Brown – rave culture


  Youth took drugs such as ecstasy and behaviour is an exaggerated by the media, which is amplified
• Fawbert- hoodies


  Bluewater shopping centre and hoodies, because it was a moral panic and labelled, and it was extremely people with hoodies were labelled as thugs due to the media portrayal
• Wilkins- deviancy amplification spiral


  Small deviance spirals to increase significance via labelling and overreaction
• Goode & Ben


  features of the moral panic or concern, hostility and volatility
• media and moral panics

  media intervenes by identification and moral entrepreneurs

  Cohen – folk devils- media creates them by representing people as a threat due to labelling and scapegoating people
• Cohen


  mods and rockers had a scuffle, which was amplified in the media they’re fighting and drinking, and they drove around on bikes
• definition


  Cohen – condition, episode person group perceived as a threat to society and group seen as folk devil
• definition


  Jewkes- features of a moral panic, or that the media turns event into extraordinary occurs during rapid social change
• definition


  Cavanagh- moral panic, reflex social anxiety about behaviour threat such as terrorism linked to Muslims
• Hall- policing the crisis

  Mugging media portrayal was associated with black males which led to increasing policing measures, and the media created a moral panic
• stages of moral panic

  Social act seen as problem

  Media application

  Deviancy amplification

  Threat increases, which leads to deviance