RT Article
T1 Could it happen here?: moral panic, school shootings, and fear of crime among college students
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 63
IS 1/2
SP 91
OP 110
A1 Schildkraut, Jaclyn
A2 Elsass, H. Jaymi
A2 Stafford, Mark C.
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1853882534
AB Originating in the early 1970s, the concept of moral panic has been used to describe the public’s reaction to a real or perceived threat. Moral panic has been linked to well-known social problems, including muggings, drugs, juvenile ‘delinquency, gangs, and terrorism. More recently, researchers have examined school shootings in this context. Notably absent, however, is a quantitative application of Goode and Ben-Yehuda’s (1994a, 1994b) attributional model of moral panic. The present study examines the five key attributes of moral panic—concern, hostility, consensus, disproportionality, and volatility - as they relate to school shootings and fear of crime among college students. The results indicate that respondents’ fear of crime is the best predictor of students’ subscription to moral panic. Directions for future research, as well as limitations of the present study, also are discussed.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 107-110
K1 Defense Measure
K1 Moral Panic
K1 Personal Victimization
K1 Property Crime
K1 School Shooting
DO 10.1007/s10611-015-9552-z