Folk Devils and Moral Panics
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- Folk Devils and Moral Panics - 1972
- Stanley Cohen
- "Deviancy Amplification"
- Newspaper Reports of Fighting between "Mods" and "Rockers" in the 1960's
- Argues that the Fighting was Distorted and Exaggerated by The Media
- The Media produced clear differences that hadn't been there before
- Newspapers PREDICTED Violence
- Police were readied and responded harshly
- Arrested Large Numbers of People
- Police were readied and responded harshly
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