Moral panics are generally fuelled, although not caused by, media coverage of social issues and can sometimes lead to mob violence.
Recent moral panics in the UK have included the ongoing tabloid campaign against paedophiles, which led to the assault and persecution of a paediatrician by an angry mob in August 2000, and that surrounding the murder of James Bulger in Liverpool in 1993.
See also:
- Marijuana - see Reefer Madness
- Prohibition - a period in the United States when alcoholic beverages are prohibited.
- Rock 'n' Roll music
- Satanic ritual abuse
- Video nasties
- Videogames and violence
- War on drugs
- White slavery