Moral Panic Moral Panic is that feeling of fear and threat that spreads between the members of a certain society when crimes that threat them and their moral order happen in their society. Most of these crimes deal with bad sexual abuse of children. Such panic usually occurs in towns with small populations where most people know each other. It is thought that such towns are characterized by low levels of education but in some …
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…and a warranty of arrest was directed to her. Finally, A moral panic is a panic over what is seen as deviant. The subject of the panic is usually not a suddenly new phenomenon, but something which has been in existence for many years, and suddenly comes to society's and the media's attention. Moral panics have happened throughout the years, though; video games were merely the latest form to feed society's concerns about their children.