Moral Panics Research - Kenneth Thompson (5)

Moral Panics, Kenneth Thompson - book

1.'The first is the increasing rapidity in the succession of moral panics; one barely finishes before another takes its place' (pg 2)

2.'But it is not the rapidity that is different, it is the all - perceived quality of the panics that distinguishes the present era' (pg  2)

'3.The language of moral panic is not never. It is a compliant that has rung out down the ages" (Peter Beaumount) (pg 3)

4.'...frequently used by the other people to describe the increasingly rapid succession of scares in the mass media about risks to social and moral order" (pg 139)

5."Leave people feeling anxious and at risk" (pg 190)