moral panic

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Modern usage appears to originate with Jock Young in 1971 and Stanley Cohen in 1972. Cohen states that "[they] both probably picked it up from Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media".

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 道德恐慌 (dàodé kǒnghuāng) — mass movement, public outcry
• Danish: moralpanik — mass movement, public outcry
• Dutch: morele paniek — mass movement, public outcry
• Finnish: moraalipaniikki — mass movement, public outcry
• French: panique morale — mass movement, public outcry
• French: tollé public — mass movement, public outcry
• German: moralische Panik — mass movement, public outcry
• German: allgemeiner Protest — mass movement, public outcry
• Greek: ηθικός πανικός (ithikós panikós) — mass movement, public outcry
• Greek: δημόσια κατακραυγή (dimósia katakravgí) — mass movement, public outcry
• Icelandic: siðfár — mass movement, public outcry
• Italian: panico morale — mass movement, public outcry
• Japanese: 道徳的なパニック (dōtokuteki na panikku) — mass movement, public outcry
• Korean: 도덕적인 공황 (dodeokjeogin gonghwang) — mass movement, public outcry
• Polish: panika moralna — mass movement, public outcry
• Portuguese: pânico moral — mass movement, public outcry
• Russian: мора́льная па́ника (morálʹnaja pánika) — mass movement, public outcry
• Russian: ма́ссовая истери́я (mássovaja isteríja) — mass movement, public outcry
• Spanish: pánico moral — mass movement, public outcry
• Swedish: moralpanik — mass movement, public outcry