A modern moral panic

The representation of British Bangladeshi and Pakistani youth in relation to violence and religion

Bibliographic Data

ID12930740
AuthorsRayen Salgado-Pottier (Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author)
Year1970
Volume10
Issue1
Publication date1970-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology Matters (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1758-6453 • E-ISSN: 1758-6453
PublisherNomadIT (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.22582/am.v10i1.44
OpenAlexW1534365357
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

Moral panics have arisen about young British Pakistani and Bangladeshi males along two veins: violence and religion. Throughout this article I shall demonstrate that these young men should be considered modern "folk devils", by placing them at the end of a succession of young deviants who have been repeatedly vilified. This is firstly explored through notions of ethnicity and criminality, via the analysis of media, government and public responses to "gangs" and the "riots" that took place in several northern industrial towns in the UK in 1995 and 2001, as well as Paris in 2005. Then the moral panic surrounding religion is explored, which seems to have overtaken the panic surrounding localised violence but still features the same protagonists. "Islamophobia" is discussed in relation to xenophobic media and state representations of young Muslim men and how the latter interact with these derisive stereotypes. Exploring the increased interest of non-practising young Muslims in Islam, I suggest that this has had both beneficial and adverse consequences

Covert · Criminology · Ethnic group · Islam · Islamophobia · Moral panic · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Representation (politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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