A moral panic is a widespread feeling of fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society...

list of events that fit the sociological definition of a moral panic. In sociology, a moral panic is a period of increased and widespread societal concern...

Moral Panic is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Nothing but Thieves. The album was released on 23 October 2020 through Sony Music...

studio album, Moral Panic, in October 2020. This was followed in July 2021 by the album's "second part" with the EP entitled Moral Panic II. In June 2023...

The Satanic panic is a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse (SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic...

Satanic panic is a widespread moral panic starting in the United States in the 1980s, characterized by allegations of Satanic ritual abuse. Satanic panic may...

child abuse and exploitation, which has been described by some as a moral panic. Other societies continue to maintain the need for openness and freedom...

coverage. A number of academics have described the controversy as a moral panic. In one academic paper, media outlets, including The Times, The Daily...

they would inhale the gases generated. In November 2007, there was a moral panic in the United States after widespread reports of jenkem becoming a popular...

and portrays it as a model for outsiders to observe and adopt. So the moral panic by society represented in the media arguably fuels further socially unacceptable...

of pornography. This triggered a widespread moral panic against otaku in Japan, similar to the Satanic Panic in America. Tsutomu Miyazaki was born on 21...

Journal for Cultural Research observed that the phrase grew out of a moral panic. It was an exhortation in the 1964 Disney film Mary Poppins, when the...

media and political elites can manufacture a moral panic, Caron Chess and Lee Clarke, explain that panic persists for both practical and political reasons...

numbers. During the post-war period trainspotters became subject to a moral panic in the British press. Following occurrences of trespass by trainspotters...

making him the first drag queen to be given such an award. A moral panic called drag panic has emerged in the United States in relation to drag queen performers...

"Peppa Pig" and Fortnite. The hoax had reached the status of a worldwide moral panic. More advisories were issued from police forces, schools and organizations...

2018 film, where he was portrayed by Javier Botet. Beginning in 2014, a moral panic occurred over the Slender Man after readers of his fiction were connected...

Trump derangement syndrome (TDS) is a pejorative term, usually for criticism or negative reactions to President-elect Donald Trump that are perceived to...

The Satanic panic is a moral panic about alleged widespread Satanic ritual abuse which originated around the 1980s in the United States, peaking in the...

and some of the controversies that have surrounded it, particularly a moral panic in the 1980s that attempted to associate it with Satanism and suicide...

theory of moral panic. Folk devil Moral entrepreneur Mass psychogenic illness Gelsthorpe, Loraine (2005). "Book Review: Folk Devils and Moral Panics: A Feminist...

generate moral panic; similarly, multiple moral entrepreneurs may have conflicting goals and work to counteract each other. Some examples of moral entrepreneurs...

The missing children panic (1979 - mid 1980s) was a moral panic concerning child abduction and murder by strangers in the United States. The event was...

(unofficial source). (in Swedish) Finna Dolda Ting (2016), Chapter "The Moral Panic", Anna-Karin Linder Krauklis, Daniel Linder Krauklis, ISBN 9170378738...

capital the movement spread to other parts of the country and provoked a moral panic from the communist authorities. Members of the subculture were known...

lecturers at the University of Technology Sydney, published Journalism, Moral Panic and the Public Interest - The Case of Sharleen Spiteri. The paper questioned...

Such explicit measures historically would be instituted as part of a moral panic or homophobia due to the important status given to marriage at various...

Community Legal Centre, to describe it as a "racialised moral panic". The aftermath of the panic caused black people in Melbourne to fear that they would...

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...

Registry criticize current sex offender laws as based on media-driven moral panic and "public emotion", rather than a real attempt to protect society....