{"id":273,"date":"2025-06-30T17:21:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/?p=273"},"modified":"2025-08-12T21:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:05:04","slug":"video-stanley-cohens-study-folk-devils-and-moral-panics-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/video-stanley-cohens-study-folk-devils-and-moral-panics-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Video | Stanley Cohen&#8217;s &#8220;Mods, Rockers, and Moral Panics&#8221; (1972)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This short documentary illustrates key elements of Labeling Theory through the lens of Stan Cohen\u2019s classic study of Mods and Rockers. It shows how sensationalized media coverage in 1960s Britain helped construct a \u201cmoral panic\u201d around these youth subcultures. The groups were labeled as \u201cfolk devils,\u201d and society responded with disproportionate attention and punishment, exaggerating their deviance. The video helps students understand key concepts like &#8220;folk devils,&#8221; &#8220;moral panic,&#8221; and the self-fulfilling prophecy, making it ideal for class discussion or a brief analysis activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mods, Rockers and Moral Panics\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r61ks18Bd7I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short documentary illustrates key elements of Labeling Theory through the lens of Stan Cohen\u2019s classic study of Mods and Rockers. It shows how sensationalized media coverage in 1960s Britain helped construct a \u201cmoral panic\u201d around these youth subcultures. The groups were labeled as \u201cfolk devils,\u201d and society responded with disproportionate attention and punishment, exaggerating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-labeling-theory","7":"category-video","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}