Policing the crisis
Stuart Hall's study of 1970s mugging panic, showing how media and police created racial panic about black youth crime, increasing policing of black communities.
Real World
Hall's 1978 'Policing the Crisis' used the British media's coverage of mugging in Handsworth, Birmingham, showing newspapers like the Daily Mirror framing black youth as an existential threat to justify repressive policing during an economic crisis.
Exam Focus
Always name Hall and the concept 'moral panic' together; examiners expect you to link media, police, and ideological control in one chain.
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