Mass Media and Crime

S.Cohen

• Folk devils and moral panics
• A study of the Mods and Rockers
• Interested in the role of the mass media in deivancy amplification
• Focused on disturbances between the Mods and Rockers during a 1964 bank holiday weekend in Clacton
• The media took these very minor disturbances and exaggerated them inot violent clashes
• At subsequent meetings the police, sensitized by the media, made more…