Is the media portrayl of street crime representitive of a new moral panic?

Monday, 26 November 2007

Statement produced in report.

"Lack of confidence in the criminal justice system may mean some young black people take the law into their own hands or carry weapons in an attempt to distribute justice and ensure their own personal safety," the report warns.

This stamement might be true and reality but it cant go on like this. With the amount of murders already this year something has to change, and it's down to the government help these teenagers to get out of the gang crime scene.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Based on the masterclass discussion have a look at the following.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic#Examples_of_moral_panics

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/lcs9603.html

http://www.mediaknowall.com/violence/moralpanicnotes.html

DW