Current moral panic
Current understandings of paedophilia and the resulting ...
The News of the World campaign was the starting point for the moral panic that swept Britain at the start of the current century, and is still in existence today. At the time who could have known that the death of one little girl (Sarah Payne) and the actions of one newspaper editor (Rebecca Wade, News of the World) would have had such an ...
[DOC File]Care Ethics in Residential Child Care: A Different Voice
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Yet, organisations that serve children are increasingly developing proscriptive policies and practices due to a current moral panic about touching children (Piper and Stronach, 2008). Cuddles and physical play (e.g. horseplay), once seemingly natural forms of interaction between adults and children, are often banned or narrowly prescribed in ...
Media constructions of, and reactions to, paedophilia in ...
The moral panic was first developed by Young (1971) and then expanded in more detail by Cohen (1972, 2002), who argued that a moral panic is an overblown social concern relating to the negative or anti-societal actions and/or ideologies of a certain event, group or sub-culture by society, which sees the actions as being destructive to modern ...
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MORAL PANIC THEORY. Moral panic was first defined by Cohen (1972:9) as “a condition, episode, person, or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests, its nature is portrayed in a pre-determined stereotypical way by the media, and ways of coping are developed.”
[DOC File]After the moral panic - University of Bristol
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The ‘moral panic’, which brings together media, political, religious and judicial spheres to manage a potential disruption to the status quo, is a familiar and recurring social response to children’s use of new leisure technologies (cinema and comics for example) (Barker, 1989; Barker & …
[DOC File]AHRB Notes - Case Western Reserve University
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Nonetheless, at this current cultural moment, there is, in the Us and Britain at least, pervasive anxiety about what is perceived as an epidemic problem of plagiarism. A Google search of the term, for example, brings up over a million hits, a number that has been increasing steadily over the past several years.
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The third section examines the current moral panic over social networking sites and MySpace.com in particular, including the DOPA legislation proposed to solve the problem. The fourth part of this paper takes a critical look at the harms of MySpace and online predators in general. I argue that in order to justify the passage of sweeping laws ...
[DOC File]The Moral Ambiguity of Social Control in Cyberspace: A ...
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I suggest that law enforcement responses in the hacker "golden age" reflect a "moral panic" (Cohen, 1972) that derived from the demonization of hackers out of proportion to the treat. I focus on selected incidents in the golden age of hacking as icons symbolic signposts that illustrate how hacking both constituted and reflected ironic ethical ...
[DOC File]CRIME AND DEVIANCE: INTERACTIONISM
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The term moral panic refers to a concern about groups Cohen refers to as ‘folk devils’ whose behaviour associated with irresponsibility and lack of respect. He describes how the media, through the process of deviancy amplification, encouraged and increased the very behaviour they were condemning. Cohen believed that . moral panics
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