LAWS 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sexting, Enclosure, Moral Panic
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Youth as a concept: calls for harsher punishments as corrective to youth deviance, deviance (clothing, tattoo"s, nomadic lifestyle) assume all young people want to do. If yesterday was better, we need to punish like they did in the past. Invention of adolescence back to the industrial revolution, no clearly defined intermediate stage (child or adult) 1) transition from agricultural based economy and society to an industrial society, worked at home sold their wares in the market, grouped home on large plots of land. Moral panics generally undergo i. ii. iii. iv. v. Something or someone is defined as a threat to values or interests (youth were changing too much) This threat is depicted in an easily recognizable from by the media (depicted as intrinsically evil, stereotype) There is a rapid build up of public concern (may be disproportional) There is a response from authorities or opinion makers.
