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In sociology, a moral panic is a period of increased and widespread societal concern over some group or issue, in which the public reaction to such group or issue is disproportional to its actual threat. The concern is further fueled by mass media and moral entrepreneurs. Moral panics may result in legislative and/or long-lasting cultural ...
A moral panic is a widespread feeling of fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, ... Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).
Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America is a 1998 American history book by American historian Philip Jenkins.The book analyses public reactions to child sexual abuse throughout the 20th century, the influence of child molestation scandals on American law and culture, and the effects of such scandals on the shifting popular and scientific beliefs regarding child ...
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Sex Panic and the Punitive State is a 2011 history book by American anthropologist Roger N. Lancaster.The book examines how moral panics related to sexual crimes in the United States since the 1960s have led to an increasingly punitive approach by the U.S. government regarding sexual offenses and fueled a "culture of fear" and paranoia in American society.
Day-care sex-abuse hysteria was a moral panic that occurred primarily during the 1980s and early 1990s, and featured charges against day-care providers accused of committing several forms of child abuse, including Satanic ritual abuse. [1] [2] The collective cases are often considered a part of the Satanic panic.
The moral panic over a scene of drag queens feasting at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics ... drag queens have been the cause of a political and religious firestorm not only in America, ...
The panic also led to the production of multiple child sexual abuse-themed movies, documentaries and TV shows, including Adam (1983), Something about Amelia (1984), Kids Don't Tell (1985), The Atlanta Child Murders (1985), Children of the Night (1985), When the Bough Breaks (1986) and Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), the last of which featured ...