"Moral panic is both a public and political response to an exaggeration or distortion of the threat posed to society by some allegedly harmful individual or group. More specifically, moral panic includes an exaggeration of certain events by enhancing the empirical criteria such as the number of individuals involved, the level and extent of violence, and the amount of damage caused."
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Moral Panic: Who Benefits From Public Fear? Moral panics maintain the status quo. Scott A. Bonn, Psychology Today, July 20, 2015
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