moral panic

A final theory relevant to this area is the moral panic.

An important mechanism here is that of the 'moral panic'.

Nothing like a good moral panic to angry up the blood and to pass though bad legislation.

Similarly, they or their behavior may be seen as the roots of the next moral panic.

He concludes that it is an example of a "moral panic."

The case led to public anguish, and moral panic in Britain.

Societies appear subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic.

Or did they take advantage of this moral panic to boss around town adults?

What's lacking from the paper is a clear description of how to stop the moral panic that seems to have developed.

This became an election issue in 2003 with a moral panic over the "collapsing safe society".

The moral panic is a fitting response to a grotesque cultural moment.

Although I found the book's reference to a "moral panic" amusing.

The fat wars are less a legitimate public health campaign than a "moral panic," she suggests.

Similarly, support for video game and media regulation has been linked to moral panic.

Why does pornography cause such a moral panic in the US?

Some experts have described fears about school shootings as a type of moral panic.

This worrying just creates a new kind of moral panic."

Wood's death was covered widely in the media and produced a moral panic on drug use among adolescents.

It set off a moral panic against absinthe in Switzerland and other countries.

A moral panic is an intense feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order.

Making work making trouble looks at how prostitution was made to be a social problem and a moral panic.

Heroin use is not a spurious construction of a 'moral panic' but a social reality.

Satanic ritual abuse is now widely considered to be an example of a moral panic.

The basic discussions of metaphor, moral panics, and the nature innovation were all quite good.