Moral Panic Theory

 Cohen says that within the media, particular groups are negativley portrayed as a 'threat' to society's norms and values as well as society on the whole thus causing a moral painc amogst the public.This panic causes ther public to turn turn on these selected groups as labells them as 'folk devils'. Key examples of this today is the way that magazines and newspapers produced by the government has turned the public against immigration and in the past against the black community by labelling them as rapists, theifs, and murderers.