Media and moral panic (Hall)

Question 1

The media portrays black people wrongly, according to Hall , how did police respond to this?

Answer 1

Policing became more aggressive towards black people particularly after 1970 when mugging and street crime was on the rise

Question 2

Hall says the purpose of labelling black people is ideological , but how?

Answer 2

diving the white and black WC, the population will become easy to control under capitalist system. People wont blame gov , but each other.

Question 3

Evaluate Hall theory about media and moral panic

Answer 3

This theory fails to consider the reality of crime and its causes in BAME communties

It fails to consider that most crime is inter racial so black people are looted by their own race too