Moral Panic

Moral Panic is that feeling of fear and threat that spreads between the members of a certain society when crimes that threat them and their moral order happen in their society. Most of these crimes deal with bad sexual abuse of children. Such panic usually occurs in towns with small populations where most people know each other. It is thought that such towns are characterized by low levels of education but in some cases this does not have to be true. In most cases rumors play the biggest role in spreading the panic and exaggerating it, which will in such cases affect negatively peoples' feelings and thinking. Nowadays the best spreading tool - whether it was true or false - is the media. Media can spread information easily and widely over great areas in a fraction of a second. Nonetheless, TV channels and other media types usually go deeper into such matter by doing interviews with survivors or victims and following investigations day by day. …