Risk and moral panic: a sociological analysis of the "fear of crime" in Superinteressante magazine (2008-2012)
Journal: LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas)
Year: 2013

This study, a sociological perspective, has aimed to investigate the possible existence of a relation between the social phenomena fear of crime and moral panic. The study was realized through a research in Superinteressante magazine. Its purpose is to understand how this magazine emphasizes in its reports/articles the issues/themes which contain the concepts of fear of crime , risk and moral panic as central issues. The first concept, fear of crime , is based in Borges (2011) and Glassner ([199