The media creating moral panic
[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 ...
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The media have created a considerable moral panic about ravers. In 1994, the Essex police deployed a helicopter, as well as roadblocks, to try to prevent all-night acid house parties or raves; six-month prison sentences were proposed for organisers for breaking the licensing laws which govern the holding of public entertainments.
[DOC File]Is it Time to Rethink Media Effects
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Arguing that even modern 'Societies appear to be subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic’ he explored the parallel between the media coverage of these working class youth movements of the era, and anthropological accounts of collective social phenomenon like witch hunts, inquisitions, and public hangings in which scapegoating ...
[DOC File]Intro: What is moral panic
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The media’s reporting of the 2010 Chinese School Attacks in the People’s Republic of China deserves special attention because of its ability to explain how the problematic social conditions in China might cause people to act out in violent ways, in turn creating a “moral panic” throughout an economically and socially unstable society.
Media constructions of, and reactions to, paedophilia in ...
Hence, the moral panic is one of the clearest examples of the influence of the media on society. 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 ...
[DOCX File]A Level Sociology
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Much media output is devoted to crime but the media offer a distorted portrayal of crime and criminals. The media are also often seen as causing crime, for example by creating a sense of relative deprivation or causing moral panics. The new media also provide …
Von Hirsh, "Proportionality in the Philosophy of Punishment
The influence of moral panic on courts is different. Although the media plays an important role in promoting moral panic, once the panic mobilizes the public, it is not the media reports on a ...
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The news media are one of our main sources of knowledge about crime and deviance. Often the media will create a moral panic surrounding crimes and criminals or deviants. Moral panics can lead to a range of responses by the public, by agents of social control and by the criminals or deviants themselves.
[DOCX File]A Level Sociology
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The news media are one of our main sources of knowledge about crime and deviance. Often the media will create a moral panic surrounding crimes and criminals or deviants. Moral panics can lead to a range of responses by the public, by agents of social control and by the criminals or deviants themselves.
[DOC File]The Social Construction of the News - h6a2sociology
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Moral panic is the expression of concern, which results from the media reporting of a given incident or incidents. The panic is based on an outraged sense of offence against apparently accepted standards of behaviour. Goode and Ben-Yehuda (1994) try to define moral panic precisely. They argue that moral panics have five distinguishing features:
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