Moral Panics and the Media

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Punish Them or Engage Them? Teachers' Views of Unproductive Student Behaviours in the Classroom. (2014, background): “In many countries like Australia, there is a growing sense of ‘social anxiety’ (Critcher, 2003, p. 147) about students’ behaviour in schools (Ball et al., 2012).”
The media construction of financial white-collar crimes (2006, background): “reality' that those 'accredited sources' provide as 'primary definers' (Critcher 2003; Schlesinger and Tumber 1994).”
Outside the outsiders: Media representations of drug use (2008, background): “Downes (1977) asserted that the media portray the drug addict as a ‘folk-devil’, whilst Critcher (2003) has highlighted the way in which Rave culture and Ecstasy use was responded to and the media’s influence on this process in the creation of a possibly unique (or even hybrid) ‘moral panic’.”