Cohen’s (1972) influential work on and analysis of moral panics in the early 1970’s regarding mods and rockers coined the phrase moral panic. Cohen explained the how media amplification can have an effect on society effecting how they perceive different groups or fashions. Sometimes amplification can cause panic and create polarised views of people, cultures or objects this becomes a perceived threat to society’s moral values. The interest grows in momentum and gathers the views of politicians, bishops and editors that get behind the moral banner, waving it for the sake of saving society from whatever threat is likely to befall them. Then the threat just disappears, sometimes leaving a ghost of panic and other times leaving an influential scar
