Key Study - Policing the Crisis by Hall et al - Flashcards in A Level and IB Sociology

1. What two ways did the moral panic help capitalism?

Convinced the public that society's problems caused by immigrants and not capitalst system faults, Gov could justice use of force to surpress the groups that challenged them
Way 1 and way 2
By the context of the problem, that the 1970's had fiancial troubles, lead to hegemony being threated, threated ruling class, needed force to control crisis
Moral panic over muggins commited by black youth, no real evidence

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By screaming like a headless Torchic!
By the context of the problem, that the 1970's had fiancial troubles, lead to hegemony being threated, threated ruling class, needed force to control crisis
Moral panic over muggins commited by black youth, no real evidence
Convinced the public that society's problems caused by immigrants and not capitalst system faults, Gov could justice use of force to surpress the groups that challenged them

There are plenty of modern examples with evidence from official data to suggest that minority groups do face disproportionate attention from the state and it's agents
Shieldon
Doesn't fail to explain how panic was created
Got both side convered - Says mugging was bound to rise as result of unemployement and was also not rising quickly

Convinced the public that society's problems caused by immigrants and not capitalst system faults, Gov could justice use of force to surpress the groups that challenged them
Labelling of large numbers of young blacks as deviants, made figures appear to show rising levels of black crime, lead to justified stronger police measures
Unlabelling of small numbers of young blacks as deviants, made figures appear to show falling levels of black crime, lead to unjustified weaker police measures
They got stampeded in all the chaos!

Leading male
By the context of the problem, that the 1970's had fiancial troubles, lead to hegemony being threated, threated ruling class, needed force to control crisis
Moral panic over muggins commited by black youth, no real evidence
Convinced the public that society's problems caused by immigrants and not capitalst system faults, Gov could justice use of force to surpress the groups that challenged them