Moral Panics 2
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- Moral Panics 2
- Moral Panics From The 50s to 2020
- 1950
- Teddy boys dress codes, hairstyles, music, drug use
- 1960
- Mods and Rockers, hard drugs, student and trade union militants
- 1970
- Political violence in Ireland, street muggings, punks and skinheads
- 1980
- Dangerous dogs, ethnic minorities clashing with the police, poor quality street drugs, AIDS
- 1990
- New Age Travellers, child sexual abuse, joyriding, ecstasy, illegal drugs
- 2000
- Bogus asylum seekers, gun and knife culture, political 'sleaze'
- 2010
- Gun and knife crime, benefit fraud, sex crimes, legal highs
- 2020
- BLM violent protesters, anti maskers
- 1950
- Moral Panics Evaluation
- Strengths
- Sociologists like Cohen and Hall et al. highlight and explain the way in which the media distorts events and labels some groups of people as deviant
- Labelling can have a negative effect through self fulfilling prophecy and unjustified fear of crime
- Sociologists like Cohen and Hall et al. highlight and explain the way in which the media distorts events and labels some groups of people as deviant
- Weaknesses
- Concept of moral panics assumed that the societal reaction to crime and deviance is always disproportionate, yet there is no measure of what is or isn't proportionate
- Some sociologists argue that the claims of the media creating moral panics is outdated
- Beck (1992) argues that we live in a 'risk society' where we are becoming used to many uncertainties and these are becoming a part of everyday life
- Therefore it is becoming more difficult to create moral panic
- Strengths
- Cyber-Crime
- The arrival of new type of media is often met with a moral panic
- Jewkes (2003) notes that the internet created new opportunities for people to commit both 'conventional crimes' like fraud and the new types of crime such as software piracy
- Wall (2001) said that there are four categories of cyber-crime:
- Cyber trespassing
- Invading others' cyber property by hacking or sabotage such as spreading viruses
- Cyber ***********
- Uploading or watching child *********** on the internet
- Cyber violence
- Inciting psychological or physical harm by cyber stalking, posting hate messages against different groups or bullying including texting
- Cyber deception and theft
- Including identity theft, 'phishing' and intellectual property rights violations
- Cyber trespassing
- Policing cyber crime is so difficult as the internet is vast with different servers, IP addresses and way to avoid detection through Virtual Private Networks and encryption services
- Jewkes (2003) argues ICT permits routine surveillance
- Moral Panics From The 50s to 2020
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