Moral panics substitute law-and-order fear for addressing economic crises

Evidence

This social anxiety contributed to the generation of “moral panics”—excessive waves of fear and apprehension among sections of the public about a perceived threat to society itself and, in reaction, the recruitment of the agencies of social control and wider political structures to deal with it. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1045 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Moral panics about women online repeat Victorian fears of women in stores — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love:…, 53; Political and economic crises are resolved through manufactured fear of racialized criminals — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 81; Moral panics about racialized criminals resolve economic crises via law-and-order solutions — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 93 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Law-and-order ideology legitimizes state intervention in crises #expands (0.95)
• Moral panics recruit state agencies of social control to contain perceived threats #expands (0.95) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1045
• Moral decay panic is really a struggle between two competing conformisms #complicates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2313
• A moral panic counts as a crisis when it is experienced as one #complicates (0.75)
• Postwar racial moral panics centered on the fear of black criminality #complicates (0.75) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 208