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1. Moral Panics and Violence in the Media
   
   • A link to information regarding the relationship between moral panics and violent images presented in the media.
   • Additional exercises:
     
     1. Review When panic shapes policy by Mark Easton.
     2. Review The American Drug Panic of the 1980s by Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda.
2. Pedophile Priests: The Social Construction of a Moral Panic
   
   • This article analyzes moral panic discourse from a sociological/social constructionist perspective.
   • Additional exercises:
     
     1. Review Has the media’s creation of moral panics caused our society to decline?
     2. Review To Catch Who? Moral Panics in Contemporary Television Media.
3. Moral Panic Analysis: Past, Present, and Future
   
   • This article by Chas Critcher provides insight into moral panic analysis.
   • Additional activities:
     
     1. Read the article . . . Moral Panics and Youth Crime—Where are the Girls?
     2. Read the article . . . The Role of Television News in the Construction of School Violence as a “Moral Panic.”