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Question 1

6 impacts

Answer 1

Moral panic stan cohen
Levels of response to crime and punishment
Changing in publics concerns and attitudes
Perception of crime trends
Stereotyping criminals
Change in priorities and emphasis

Question 2

Who is Stan Cohen

Answer 2

Hes a sociologist who researched mods and rockers in 1960s
He played three roles The media, youth and magistrates
He found they all had separate views of the whole event

Question 3

What is moral panic?

Answer 3

Public fear and concern that arises in response to a perceived threat of an event that has been over exaggerated

Question 4

What do moral panics do to levels of response to crime and types of punishment

Answer 4

Police prioritise the crime being committed and those involved may get harsher sentences than u usual in order to prevent it happening again