How to Create and Sustain a Moral Panic in a Few Simple Steps

It’s an election year, so there must be some sort of moral panic.

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Criminologist Stanley Cohen defined moral panics as a time when “a condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests.” Moral panics are interesting to study, and a little scary to live…