The following is a list of events that have been described by multiple reliable sources as fitting the sociological definition of a moral panic:
18th century and before
title | target | causes | location | time | refs |
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Texas slave insurrection | Suspected slave rebels | ||||
American-European witch-hunts | Supposed witches | 1700s |
19th century
title | target | causes | location | time | refs |
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Texas slave insurrection | Suspected slave rebels | ||||
Anti-Catholicism of the 1840s | Catholic immigrants | United States | [1] | ||
Garroting panic of the 1860s | Garroting thieves | Alarmism over the prevalence of garroting in the United States. | [2][3] |
20th century
title | target | Description | Causes | location | time | refs |
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White slavery scare | Owners of White slaves | Alarmism over the slave trade of White people, especially White women | Early 1900s | [4][5] | ||
Satanic panic | Supposed satanic cults | Paranoia that Satanic cults engaged in child sexual abuse rituals. | Conspiracy theories, often fueled by tabloid media | 1980s | [6][7] | |
Blood libel | Jews | Paranoia that Jews engage in the kidnapping and murder of gentile children. | [8] | |||
Comic book panic | Comic books | Alarmism over the influence of comic books on young people | Christian activism, publication of Seduction of the Innocent | 1930s - 1950s | [9][10] | |
Lavender Scare | Gay men | [11] | ||||
War on drugs | Drug traffickers and addicts | Global | [12][13] | |||
Missing children panic | Kidnapers | Alarmism over the prevalence of child abduction crimes by strangers. | Murder and abduction of Adam Walsh | United States | [14][15] | |
Day-care sex-abuse hysteria | Supposed Satanist day-care workers | Paranoia that some day-care centers were engaging in Satanic child sexual abuse. | Conspiracy theories spread by social workers, law-enforcement officers and the NCMEC. | 1980s, 1990s | [16][17] | |
Dungeons & Dragons panic | Dungeon and Dragons and other table-top games | Paranoia that some table-top games were leading young people into drug use and Satanism. | Conspiracy theories spread by Christian and Conservative activists | [18][19] | ||
Mods and rockers panic | Members of the two groups | Alarmism over hooligan activities by the two youth groups. | Conflicts between the groups | United Kingdom | [20][21] | |
Sex offender panic | Sex offenders | Public anxiety over sex offenders and their threat to children. | Murder of Adam Walsh, media attention on high profile child abuse cases | United States | 1970s-present | [22][23][24][25] |
Wilding panic | Black youth gangs | Alarmism over physical and sexual assaults in public streets by youth gangs. | 1990s | [26][27] | ||
AIDS panic | Gay men | Alarmism over AIDS dissemination, particularly by gay men. | AIDS pandemic of the 1980s | Global | 1980s, 1990s | [28][29] |
Internet moral panic | The Internet | Alarmism that the internet would expose children pornographic materials and enable child grooming. | 1990s, 2000s | [30][31][32] |
21st century
title | Target | description | Causes | location | time | refs |
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Islamic terrorism panic | Arabs and Muslims | Alarmism over Arab and Muslim terrorism. | September 11 attacks, other terrorist attacks by Muslims | United States | [33][34] | |
Qanon | Politicians and celebrities | Fears that some politicians and celebrities engage in Satanic child sexual abuse rituals. | Conspiracy theories spread on social media, misreadings of child abduction statistics | United States | 2010s | [35][36] |
Gender ideology panic | LGBT activists | Fears that LGBT activists were introducing children to "gender ideology" in schools. | Latin America | 2000s, 2010s | [37][38] | |
Anti-LGBT panic | LGBT people | Fears of LGBT child grooming and genital mutilation of cisgender children by gender professionals. | LGBT grooming conspiracy theory | United States, Argentina, Brazil | 2010s - present | [39][40] |
Immigrant child grooming panic | South Asian immigrants | Alarmism over immigrant "grooming gangs" in Europe. | British media reportings | United Kingdom | 2010s - | [41][42] |
Human trafficking panic | Human traffickers | Alarmism over the prevalence of sex-trafficking and human-trafficking. | United States, United Kingdom | 2000s - | [43][44][45][46] | |
Harry Potter panic | The Harry Potter book series | Fears that the series was leading children into witchcraft | 1990s | [47][48] | ||
Violent videogames moral panic | Violent videogames | Alarmism that videogames were influencing children into commiting violent acts | Media sensationalism, launch of Death Race | 1970s - 1990s | [49][50] |
References
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