Abstract
This article assesses the legacy of Stan Cohen's moral panic thesis in the context of its debt to the discipline of sociology and its appropriation and transformation by Stuart Hall, especially in the relatively neglected major work, Policing the Crisis. This is shown to be a significant, if flawed, paradigmatic legacy for contemporary media and cultural studies where Hall's influence in particular remains remarkably strong. Despite their considerable innovations, Cohen and Hall are found to have reproduced elements of the functionalism of their sources. The article concludes with a consideration of some recent commentators' revisions which may enable a less compromised articulation of this paradigm.
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