Examine the contemporary relevance of the concept ‘moral panic’ in explaining the reporting of, and responses to, youth ‘crime’.

Include references from the following:

Carrabine, E. (2008) Crime, Culture and the Media, Cambridge: Polity Press (Chapter 8).
Cohen, S. (1972) Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of Mods and Rockers, Oxford: Martin Robinson.
Goode, E. and Ben-Yehuda, N. (1994) Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance, Oxford: Blackwell.
Marsh, I. and Melville, G. (2009) Crime, Justice and the Media. London: Routledge (chapter 3)
McRobbie, A. and Thornton, S. (1995) ‘Rethinking “moral panic” for a multi- mediated world’ in Greer, C. (2010) (ed.) Crime and the Media: A Reader, London: Routledge, pp. 483-490.
Jewkes, Y. (2010) Media and Crime: Key Approaches to Criminology, London: Sage. (Chapter 3)

David, M., Rohloff, A., Petley, J. and Hughes, J. (2011) The idea of moral panic:
ten dimensions of dispute. Crime, Media, Culture, vol.7 (3), pp. 215-228. Garland, D. (2008) ‘On the concept of moral panic’, Crime, Media, Culture, vol. 4
(1), pp. 9-30.
Hall, S., Criticher, C., Jefferson, T., Clarke, J. and Roberts, B. (1978) Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order. Houndsmill: Macmillan
Criticher, C. (2003) Moral Panics and the Media, Maidenhead Open University Press (esp. pp. 9-30)
Marsh, I. and Melville, G. (2011) ‘Moral panics and the British media – a look at some contemporary folk devils’, Internet Journal of Criminology
Downloadable from: http://www.internetjournalofcriminology.com/Marsh_Melville_Moral_Panics_and_t
he_British_Media_March_2011.pdf

Young, J. (1971) The Drug Takers: The Social Meaning of Drug Use, London: MacGibbon and Kee.
Special issue of British Journal of Criminology ‘Moral Panics – 37 Years On’, 2009, vol. 49 (1)

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