... spiral operates to produce a 'moral panic'. Illustrate with two examples. According to Cohen, society is regularly subjected to moral panics. Moral panics are seen as an occurrence incited by a person or a group of people which can/has been presented to society in a stereotypical manner by the media. We witness moral panics almost every time we pickup a newspaper or turn on the TV. How do these occurrences turn into moral panic? Cohen described this process as the Deviancy Amplification Spiral. Cohen used the mods and rockers 'disturbances' as an example of how a small altercation was portrayed by the media as 'a mob hell bent on destruction' (OU page 23) this in turn caused more policing and more arrests which reinforced in the publics mind that there was a need for panic thus creating Cohen's Deviancy Amplification Spiral (DAS). The DAS operates by taking a smaller issue, pushing it ...

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