1. Crime in Early Massachusetts
Girl gangs become popular in the media after the actress Elizabeth Hurley was robbed with a broken bottle allegedly by a gang of four teenage girls in 1994 (Knowsley, 1994). ... Stanley Cohen described a moral panic as: "A condition, episode, person or group of persons emerged to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests; its nature is presented in a stylized and stereotypical fashion by the mass media; the moral barricades are manned by editors, bishops, politicians and other right-thinking people; socially accredited experts pronounce their diagnoses and solutions; ways of ...