Examples Of Moral Panic

Moral panics are when a sort of tipping point in society that the sense of threat reaches a breaking point. The conditions that can decide if a situation or objects are a moral panic are if they have diversity of agencies and interest groups, comprehensible story, kernel of truth, media magnification, politico-moral entrepreneurs, professional interest groups, and historical context of conflict. Some examples of moral panics includes comic books, video games, and the Satanic Panic. The moral panic with comic books started in 1950. People believed that comic books encouraged juvenile delinquency and allowed for bad concepts to emerge in children’s heads. In some comics there were uses of drugs and violence there was also very frightening/ graphic images in the …show more content…
Wertham concluded Batman was gay because he wore a gown, had flowers in his house and had a butler. After the moral panic of comic books many states restricted the sale of comic books and many people had bonfires to burn comic books. Many changes had happened to the comic book industry such as characters were not allowed to question authority because it then gave the children the thought that they can question their parents. Also, the characters in the comic books were not allowed to wear revealing clothing or show any type of paraphilia. After this moral panic, comic books were mainly for children instead of adults. By the 1980s violence was more acceptable and was frequently used in comic books once again. . The moral panic just ended up dying down throughout the years. The moral panic of video games all started because people started to believe that the violence that was displayed in the games would make the children act in violence outside of playing the game. Violent video games help a person aim a gun and if they are addicted to video games they may not realize when they are playing the game or if they are in