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Media and Crime, Criticisms of moral panics, Theoretical perspectives on…
Media and Crime
Moral Panics
Case study: Mods & Rockers
Cohen
Process of a moral panic
Moral panics and social change
How was did the media create a deviance amplification spiral with the Mods & Rockers?
3 elements of media reaction to the Mods & Rockers
Contemporary application:
Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman's 'Stop the Boats' policy - moral panic about asylum seekers
Cyber Crime
Jewkes
How has technology also made it easier to fight crime?
The Internet has created opportunities to commit both conventional and new types of crime
Media representation of crime
Criticisms of moral panics
Late modernity - lack of consensus about what is considered 'deviant'
- diverse society in terms of beliefs - more reflexive? reflective? thinking about the consequences of believing what the media tells us
Post modernity - Baudrillard - hyperreality
means we cannot distinguish media exaggerated representations of events from reality - we are more susceptible to a moral panic
Does not explain how moral panics stop
- in 2023 the moral panic about 'hoodies' has died down - how did this happen? why do moral panics not just go on indefinitely?
Theoretical perspectives on moral panics
Functionalism
Social change and anomie
Neo-Marxism
Stuart Hall et al
Key terms:
Moral entrepreneur
Deviance amplification spiral
Sensationalise
Key terms:
Cyber crime =
'Phishing' =