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Making Sense of Moral PanicsKiller Kids—A Case Study

Making Sense of Moral Panics: Killer Kids—A Case Study [This chapter explores a case of moral panic that emerged in relation to a murder by a group of young people (including a 12-year-old) in Auckland, New Zealand. This is a case that has all the ingredients of a typical moral panic: a horrible event; sensationalist media coverage; a plethora of opinions, diagnoses and remedies; and a proposal to make a knee-jerk law change. The analysis illustrates that it is also a panic that followed a unique trajectory (as all panics do). This chapter considers why it took this shape and finds that features of the case touched on an understanding about the truth of images, a fantasy about criminal ethnic others and an appetite for punitive penal policies.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Making Sense of Moral PanicsKiller Kids—A Case Study

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-61820-3
Pages
117 –149
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-61821-0_6
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[This chapter explores a case of moral panic that emerged in relation to a murder by a group of young people (including a 12-year-old) in Auckland, New Zealand. This is a case that has all the ingredients of a typical moral panic: a horrible event; sensationalist media coverage; a plethora of opinions, diagnoses and remedies; and a proposal to make a knee-jerk law change. The analysis illustrates that it is also a panic that followed a unique trajectory (as all panics do). This chapter considers why it took this shape and finds that features of the case touched on an understanding about the truth of images, a fantasy about criminal ethnic others and an appetite for punitive penal policies.]

Published: Oct 7, 2017

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