Jock Young pioneered the concept in 1971, rejected it by 1980, and began using it again from the late 1990s

Evidence

See also YoungTC.pdf - City Research Online (City Research Online)

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
  • XREF: connects to: Folktales can escalate into moral panics in troubled times. — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 77; First coined by Jock Young (1971) and, later, Stanley Cohen (1972) — Moral Panic - Library at University of Wisconsin-Parkside