Cohens Moral Panic

Cohens moral panic still applys today.

Condition/episode/person/group emerges a threat to societal values and interests.
Threats to our society, some examples are;
Terrorism
Knife crime/ Teenagers
Gun crime
Scandal-Expenses
PM's
Immigrants

Contruct folk devils, one person represents group which becomes hatred.
For example- "Yobs/Hoodies" who are teenagers are becoming the "follk devil". Society needs control folk devils in the media. Folk devil occurs when theres un-rest in society. For example;

Recession
Focused on MP'S and benefit cheats.
MP'S and government- Ripping country off and becoming folk devils.

Historical Perspective
Music Halls- Lower social standard who goes their- Rude shows/ bad songs.
Football teams where picked through religion, this still happens in scotland.

Features 

• Concern- Behaviour is a big threat
• Voultility- Short lived- erupted trouble
• Students- Seen as "folk devils", contructed to create clear division between them and us.
• Consenus- Threat posed by this group
• Disproportionally- Exageration of evidence- scale of the problem

Listening to music people become inspired by lryics. Some cases have proven this point. Artists such as eminem and 50 cent, write unnapropriate lryics about killing, etc. These lryics cause bad reactions.