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== 18th century and before ==
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|[[Witch trials in the early modern period|American-European witch-hunts]]
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|That some individuals with supernatural powers were causing harm to their communities
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|Religious superstitions, unsubstantiated accusations of witchcraft
|Europe, North America
|Middle ages to the 1700s
|<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last=Victor |first=Jeffrey S. |date=1994-07 |title=Fundamentalist religion and the moral crusade against Satanism: The social construction of deviant behavior |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01639625.1994.9967975 |journal=Deviant Behavior |language=en |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=305–334 |doi=10.1080/01639625.1994.9967975 |issn=0163-9625}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Koning |first=Niek |date=2013 |title=Witchcraft Beliefs and Witch Hunts: An Interdisciplinary Explanation |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12110-013-9164-1 |journal=Human Nature |language=en |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=158–181 |doi=10.1007/s12110-013-9164-1 |issn=1045-6767}}</ref>
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|Catholic immigrants
|That Catholics were conspiring against American interests.
|Increased immigration of Catholics to the U.S., [[Anti-Catholicism in the United States|anti-Catholic attitudes]]
|United States
|1840s, 1850s
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|1930s - 1950s
|<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Condis |first=Megan |last2=Stanfill |first2=Mel |date=2022-11-02 |title=Debating with Wertham's ghost: comic books, culture wars, and populist moral panics |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2021.1946579 |journal=Cultural Studies |language=en |volume=36 |issue=6 |pages=953–980 |doi=10.1080/09502386.2021.1946579 |issn=0950-2386}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shuker |first=Roy |date=1986 |title=Popular culture and moral panic: From comics to video nasties |url=https://pesaagora.com/access-archive-files/ACCESSAV05N2_047.pdf |journal=ACCESS: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN EDUCATION |volume=5 |issue=2}}</ref>
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|Sexual psychopaths panic
|Child sex offenders and pedophiles
|Child sexual abuse, especially when perpetrated by strangers.
|Sensationalistic media coverage of child sex crimes
|United States
|1930s - 1950s
|<ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Jenkins |first=Philip |title=Moral panic: changing concepts of the child molester in modern America |date=1998 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-10963-4 |location=New Haven London |pages=49-74}}</ref>
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|Homosexuality panic
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|[[Lavender Scare|Lavender scare]]
|Gay men and lesbians
|That homosexuals were conspiring against
|Societal tensions during the [[Cold War]], the belief that homosexuals were sympathetic toward the [[Soviet Union]]
|United States
|1950s
|<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":8">{{Citation |last=Karger |first=Michael |title=Moral Panics of Sexuality |date=2022 |work=The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Sexuality Education |pages=1–11 |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-95352-2_5-1 |access-date=2024-06-19 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-95352-2_5-1 |isbn=978-3-030-95352-2}}</ref>
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|[[Mod (subculture)|Mods]] and [[Rocker (subculture)|rockers]] panic
|Members of the two groups
|[[Hooliganism|Hooligan activities]] by the two youth groups.
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|United Kingdom
|1960s
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|Sex offender panic
|Sex offenders and pedophiles<ref name=":8" />
|Sex crimes, especially those relating to children
|Reoccurrence of high-profile child sexual abuse scandals
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|Supposed satanic cults
|That supposed Satanic cults were engaging in child sexual abuse rituals.
|Unsubstantiated Satanic ritual abuse rumors and allegations, [[Tabloid journalism|tabloid
|United States
|1980s
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|Missing children panic
|Kidnapers
|Child abduction by strangers in public places.
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|United States
|1980s
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|''Dungeons & Dragons'' panic
|[[Dungeons & Dragons|Dungeon and Dragons]] and other [[Tabletop game|table-top]] [[Role-playing game|RPG]] games
|That some table-top games were leading young people into drug use and Satanism.
|Popularization of role-playing games in the 1970s, the mythical themes in such games<ref>{{Cite book |last=Laycock |first=Joseph |title=Dangerous games: what the moral panic over role-playing games says about play, religion, and imagined worlds |date=2015 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-28491-3 |location=Oakland, California |pages=51-75}}</ref>
|United States
|1980s
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|Gay men
|AIDS dissemination, particularly by gay men.
|AIDS pandemic of the 1980s
|Global
|1980s - 1990s
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|Wilding panic
|Black youth gangs
|Physical and sexual assaults in public streets by ethnic youth gangs.
|[[Central Park jogger case|Rape of Trisha Meili]], sensationalistic journalism
|United States
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|Dogs, especially [[Pit bull|pit bulls]]
|Dog attacks against humans.
|Sensationalistic media coverage of dog attacks
|United Kingdom
|late 1980s - 1990s
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|Islamic terrorism panic
|Arabs and Muslims
|Arab and [[Islamic terrorism|Muslim terrorism]].
|[[September 11 attacks]]
|United States
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|Human trafficking panic
|Human and sex traffickers
|[[Sex trafficking|Sex-trafficking]] and [[Human trafficking|human-trafficking]].
|Reoccurrence of high-profile human and sex-trafficking scandals
|United States, United Kingdom, Australia
|2000s - present
|<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hamilton |first=Lesley Rae |date=2016 |title=Sex Trafficking Legislation Under the Scope of the Harm Principle and Moral Panic |url=https://repository.uclawsf.edu/hastings_law_journal/vol67/iss2/6/ |journal=UC Law Journal |volume=67 |issue=2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Haynes |first=Jason |date=2023 |title=Human Trafficking: Iconic Victims, Folk Devils and the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2230.12814 |journal=The Modern Law Review |language=en |volume=86 |issue=5 |pages=1232–1264 |doi=10.1111/1468-2230.12814 |issn=0026-7961}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cree |first=V. E. |last2=Clapton |first2=G. |last3=Smith |first3=M. |date=2014-03-01 |title=The Presentation of Child Trafficking in the UK: An Old and New Moral Panic? |url=https://academic.oup.com/bjsw/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/bjsw/bcs120 |journal=British Journal of Social Work |language=en |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=418–433 |doi=10.1093/bjsw/bcs120 |issn=0045-3102}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dagistanli |first=Selda |last2=Milivojevic |first2=Sanja |date=2013
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|Internet predator
|Adults who solicit sex from minors online
|Sexting between adults and minors on the internet.
|Popularization of [[social media]] among young people, misreadings of
|United States, United Kingdom
|2000s
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|Increase of [[Neoconservatism|neo-Conservative]] activism in Latin America since the 1980s
|Latin America
|2000s
|<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Morán Faúndes |first=José Manuel |date=2019-07 |title=The geopolitics of moral panic: The influence of Argentinian neo-conservatism in the genesis of the discourse of ‘gender ideology’ |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0268580919856488 |journal=International Sociology |language=en |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=402–417 |doi=10.1177/0268580919856488 |issn=0268-5809}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Careaga-Pérez |first=Gloria |date=2016-02-19 |title=Moral Panic and Gender Ideology in Latin America |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/rag/6/2/article-p251_8.xml |journal=Religion and Gender |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=251–255 |doi=10.18352/rg.10174 |issn=2589-8051}}</ref>
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|[[QAnon|Qanon]] panic
|Politicians and celebrities
|That some politicians and celebrities engaged in Satanic child sexual abuse rituals.
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|Immigrant child grooming panic
|South Asian immigrants
|Immigrant "grooming gangs" in Europe
|[[Islamophobia in the United Kingdom|Anti-Muslim sentiments in the UK]], sensationalistic media coverage of migrant sex crimes
|United Kingdom
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|Anti-LGBT panic
|LGBT people
|[[LGBT grooming conspiracy theory|LGBT child grooming]] and genital mutilation of cisgender children by gender professionals.
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|United States, Argentina, Brazil
|2010s - present
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