Moral panics recruit ordinary citizens as primary censure agents

Evidence

In many cases, the creation of widespread moral panics can lead to ordinary citizens acting as the primary agents of censure themselves” (Jackson, Writing the War on Terrorism, 116). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 855

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Directly parallels the reader’s existing piece on moral panics over dress — the ‘ordinary citizens as censure agents’ mechanism echoes how neighbors police women’s modesty.
• BMF: Citizens self-appointed as censors of deviance evokes the citizen-militia surveillance register of White Noise’s rigidly policed communities, and vaguely the communal policing in Home Boy.