Whose side were we on? The undeclared politics of moral panic theory by Stanley Cohen Crime Media Culture 2011
This Article follows the issues of the politics or the hidden politics
of moral panics. With ever so called moral panic there is a hidden political
agenda. An idea is also brought up that every moral panic is either good or bad
and the politics and the follows of the so called panic is what makes it one or
the other. An example is the so called crimes that have no victims witch was a
very loosely used term in the 1970’s this could be anything from homosexuality to
drug taking. This is supposedly what causes the blurring between crime and
politics. Politics decided that too much was being criminalised and so things
had to change. People suddenly felt unsafe with not only the people making the
decision but also the environment they were in. This creates a response in a
population also known as a moral panic.
The Crimes that have no victims were changed because of the people come
forward that said they were affected by the crime and there for justifying the
reasoning behind it. This brings us to the idea that people or groups only use
what is relevant to their case and not what affects the topic as a whole. A
question is asked to water every moral panic has the same social standing as
another or weather things like gender and race effect how they are viewed. Finally
there is a small discussion on the differences in moral panics and moral crises
and how difficult it is to find the line between them. Again this comes down to
the politics behind moral panics and the idea that even without the media of today
people would still panic when something knew of different happens.
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