Moral panic is a grossly exaggerated and widely shared fear in
society of a newly discovered threat from an old form of deviance.
This paper examines how the deviant persons or out-of-the-norm phenomena made as objects of this fear have been around for a long time and how they are brought to the attention of
society and
media only by an incident or two that had the effect of a sudden eruption. Outline Theories on Moral Panic The Role of Media Mental Illness and Media Attitudes Reinforced by Media Social Control