This became an election issue in 2003 with a moral panic over the "collapsing safe society".
The case led to public anguish, and moral panic in Britain.
Similarly, they or their behavior may be seen as the roots of the next moral panic.
Societies appear subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic.
A final theory relevant to this area is the moral panic.
Nothing like a good moral panic to angry up the blood and to pass though bad legislation.
Or did they take advantage of this moral panic to boss around town adults?
He concludes that it is an example of a "moral panic."
What's lacking from the paper is a clear description of how to stop the moral panic that seems to have developed.