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moral panics  

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  • Moral panics—artificially created crime scares— have long and strong roots in American history. Researchers, often influenced by critical conflict-oriented Marxist themes, have demonstrated that moral entrepreneurs demonized “dangerous groups” to serve their own religious, political, economic, social, cultural, and legal interests. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Moral Panics]

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