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Moral Panic
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A moral panic is an episode in which public concern about a threat rises far above the evidence for it, producing rules that outlast the panic.
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A wave of alarm about a youth activity yields lasting restrictions after the alarm subsides.
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A panic can attach to a real problem; the disproportion, not the falsity, defines it.