Moral Panics

Goode, Erich; Ben‐Yehuda, Nachman

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“…Each of these case studies illustrates a somewhat different example of the larger phenomenon of cultural consequences of miscarriages of justice. In the first case, the ritual sexual abuse cases of the 1980s and early 1990s, miscarriages of justice were linked to a classic ''moral panic,'' a widespread popular belief that ritual sexual abuse was far more prevalent that it actually appears to have been (Cohen, 1972;Goode & Ben-Yehuda, 1994;Grometstein, 2008;Jenkins, 1998). In the second case, the Central Park jogger case, large segments of the public came to believe in the existence of an entirely new form of crime, known as ''wilding.''…”

Section: Cultural Consequencesmentioning

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Cultural consequences of miscarriages of justice

Cole

2009

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Social science scholarship has tended to focus more on the causes than the consequences of miscarriages of justice. Within the literature on consequences, the overwhelming emphasis has been on individual consequences: psychological and material impacts on the wrongly convicted individual and, in some cases, other indirectly impacted individuals such as family members of the wrongly convicted and victims of the true perpetrator's future crimes. Some attention has been devoted to social harms, the impact of miscarriages of justice on the broader society within which they are situated, such as the undermining of the legitimacy of the criminal justice system. This paper focuses on what are called here cultural consequences of miscarriages of justice: the way in which some high-profile miscarriages of justice can shape the public's beliefs about some of the most basic "facts" about crime, such as the nature, prevalence, or even existence of certain categories of crime and the types of individual who tend to perpetrate particular types of crime. In this way, the paper argues, miscarriages of justice may have hitherto underexplored consequences: reshaping, based on false premises, the public's belief about the very nature of crime itself. This paper discusses three cases studies of miscarriages of justice that for varying periods of time created widespread false beliefs about the nature of crime in large segments of the public. The paper concludes by noting that the "righting" of these false beliefs was in most cases fortuitous. This suggests that unexposed miscarriages of justice may still be shaping popular beliefs about the nature of crime, and aspects of the public's current conception of crime may yet be based on false premises.

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Section: Cultural Consequencesmentioning

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Cultural consequences of miscarriages of justice

Cole

2009

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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“…Este comportamiento es transgresor: involucra el enérgico intento por hacer cumplir las reglas y la provocadora tentativa de romperlas. Estos pánicos, si son de cierta importancia, reaparecerán nuevamente (muy a menudo, por supuesto, en términos de los dos tropos, "juventud y drogas" o "juventud y violencia"; ver Goode y Ben-Yehuda, 1994). No son simplemente disturbios excepcionales, aislados en algún punto en el tiempo.…”

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El pánico moral. Sus orígenes en la resistencia, el ressentiment y la traducción de la fantasía en realidad

Young¹

2016

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“…"Members are collectively designated as the enemy of respectable, law-abiding society; their behavior is seen as harmful or threatening to the values, interests, way of life, possibly the very existence, of the society, or a Downloaded by [University of Waterloo] at 16:00 04 November 2014 sizable segment of the society." [80] It is during the hostility phase that battle lines are drawn, setting the stage for the emergence of Cohen's folk devil. [6] There are several indicators that illustrate an increase in hostility concerning the use of patronage.…”

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“…public opinion polls, media attention, proposed legislation, action groups or social movement activity." [80] To measure the level of concern during the time period relevant to the Massport case, a hybrid approach has been adopted. Using the Lexis-Nexus database, a search of full text articles in the Boston Globe was conducted using the keyword patronage.…”

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The Demonization of Patronage: Folk Devils, Moral Panics and theBoston Globe'sCoverage of the Terrorist Attacks of 9-11

Bearfield

2008

International Journal of Public Administration

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The demonization of patronage during the Progressive Era is still having significant impacts on American public administration as demonstrated in the case of the controversies surrounding the operations of Logan Airport in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Applying the theory of "moral panics," this article examines the use of patronage as a "folk devil" by the Boston-region media. The analysis discusses of the implications of unchallenged demonized concepts and the need for a more analytic approach to the study of patronage.

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Moral Panics

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Cultural consequences of miscarriages of justice

Cultural consequences of miscarriages of justice

El pánico moral. Sus orígenes en la resistencia, el ressentiment y la traducción de la fantasía en realidad

The Demonization of Patronage: Folk Devils, Moral Panics and theBoston Globe'sCoverage of the Terrorist Attacks of 9-11

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