Moral panic

This is a classic example of a moral panic-

James Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990 – 12 February 1993) was a two-year-old boy from kirkby, Mersyside, England, who was anducted, tortured and murdered. The perpetrators were two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson (born 23 August 1982) and Jon Venables (born 13 August 1982). Bulger disappeared on 12 February 1993 from the new strand shopping centre, bottle, while accompanying his mother. His mutilated body was found on a railway line in nearby walton on 14 February. Thompson and Venables were charged on 20 February 1993 with the abduction and murder.

This became a moral pani as everyone was starting to worry about there children and everyone else around them. The media react negativly towards the victuims and people starting reacting nagativly towards anyone that was on the sex offenders list or who had aducted children this is known as CULTURAL HEGEMONY.