Recent moral panics in the media include explicit sex, video-nasties, drugs and violence and have raised many moral panics amongst society, and voiced mainly by parents, the government and individual pressure groups. For this essay, I will use media violence and its moral panics.

On the front page of the Southend Standard (a freely distributed newspaper for Southend residents) published on the 11th of February was an article about a comic book series that is widely available in Southend Library. The comic contains detailed drawings of deviant sex, drug abuse, extreme violence and gore. Local politicians are urging the boss of the Southend Library to remove this and other comic series similar in taste because this kind of material is not acceptable in our society, especially for 12 year-old chi

ldren. The article appeals to pressure groups, the Southend Bourgh Council and parents, informing them of the negative effects on child behaviour that may arise from reading these images.

I believe there is a possible link between violent films and behavioural patterns.

The Internet is another source of harmful and explicit material for children. It is ever-growing from the past twenty years it has been running, and provides a wide variety of content, all of which may be accessed by a single click of a button. Through recent moral panics raised by the public, security software is available to buy which prevents children from accessing 'illegal' websites (where illegal means inappropriate and unacceptable material such as pornography).

Voices should be welcomed in our society because it shows our concerns in that we as an audience decide on what is decent and acceptable to everyone. The voices are there as guidance and as a sense of direction to prevent dishonesty in society that may effect it in negative behaviour.

The audience can be split into two separate groups, passive and active. Children fall into the passive audience as they are ever-changing, they absorb the media, they are easy manipulated by it and react to it in either a negative or positive way.

For example, the Jamie Bulger's case, where two children kill

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