When a threat becomes apparent in society, the members of a community may result to moral panic. In Christie Barron and Dany Lacombe’s “Moral Panic and the Nasty Girl.” They examine the topic of female violence in the 1990s and societies reaction to the murder case of Reena Virk and the notorious couple Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka crimes that were committed. Barron and Lacombe explain the Nasty Girl is a social construct that has been formed in the perception of fear and risk in the occasional acts of girl violence. Their paper also focuses on policymaking that has been affected by female violence and the concerns that society holds in general. This article review will analyze the author’s argument in relation to the evidence used to
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Barron and Lacombe state that these killings put an initial scare in society and created the idea that Canada might be developing a serious issue on their hands. Once the murder of Reena Virk occurred in 1997, the general public had a confirmed belief that the impending doom of young girl violence had been confirmed and that changes needed to be made. New reforms and programs were beginning to be implicated throughout the region, which evolved from society, social agencies, experts and activists who all agreed that female violence was a problem. These programs came together to focus on girls who pose problems and may be struggling mentally and behaviourally, they tended to focus on females who came from troubled homes and had been involved in issues before so that an intervention could be posed in aiding these young adults. Barron and Lacombe propose the idea that the best approach would be to focus on gender, race and class specific action that relates to the realities that young girls face such as; victimization of girls, factors of race, social and economic inequality. Their worked focused on making society aware of their implications of moral panic, making things worse than the reality of them. They argued that the occasional acts of female violence that have occurred do not imply that there is an issue within society. Unlike their male counterparts, female violence is significantly less but is looked down upon because of how society has become desensitized towards male violence. The alarms caused over female violence are the product of moral
Barron and Lacombe state that these killings put an initial scare in society and created the idea that Canada might be developing a serious issue on their hands. Once the murder of Reena Virk occurred in 1997, the general public had a confirmed belief that the impending doom of young girl violence had been confirmed and that changes needed to be made. New reforms and programs were beginning to be implicated throughout the region, which evolved from society, social agencies, experts and activists who all agreed that female violence was a problem. These programs came together to focus on girls who pose problems and may be struggling mentally and behaviourally, they tended to focus on females who came from troubled homes and had been involved in issues before so that an intervention could be posed in aiding these young adults. Barron and Lacombe propose the idea that the best approach would be to focus on gender, race and class specific action that relates to the realities that young girls face such as; victimization of girls, factors of race, social and economic inequality. Their worked focused on making society aware of their implications of moral panic, making things worse than the reality of them. They argued that the occasional acts of female violence that have occurred do not imply that there is an issue within society. Unlike their male counterparts, female violence is significantly less but is looked down upon because of how society has become desensitized towards male violence. The alarms caused over female violence are the product of moral