The mugging panic fused crime, race, and urban change into social crisis
Evidence
Muhammad traces how nineteenth- and twentieth-century crime statistics constructed Blackness as criminal. For AI-equity readers working on predictive policing, The Condemnation of Blackness provides essential historical context. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2727 (
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Behind the anger and the blame, was the fear. … ‘The women crèche workers were absolutely petrified,’ Ellis’s solicitor Chris Knight told me. ‘It was like a police state thing closing in. They were all under suspicion. Enquiries were being made of friends and neighbours. It was a terrifying time for everyone on the periphery who felt they could be drawn into the vortex.’ — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 2237 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Moral panics arise from cultural strains caused by social change and serve as mechanisms of social control reinforcing existing power dynamics. — Moral Panic | Social Sciences and Humanities | Research Starters; Police actions intensified fear among community members. — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 2237; Moral panics can produce long-lasting changes in society. — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 55 (+3 more)
Related
- Political and economic crises are resolved through manufactured fear of racialized criminals (similarity 0.80)
- Police actions intensified fear among community members. (similarity 0.79)
- Moral panics about racialized criminals resolve economic crises via law-and-order solutions (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Crime statistics historically constructed Blackness as criminal
#expands(0.70) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2727 - Police actions intensified fear among community members.
#corroborates(0.65) — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 2237 - Moral panics can produce long-lasting changes in society.
#expands(0.60) — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 55 - Comparative sociology of moral panic reveals cultural differences.
#responds-to(0.40) — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics, 83