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Assignment:

Your activity for this week is to write an essay in your own words (approx. 400 to 500 words) that:

• Explains what a moral panic is and how our fears/ideas about drugs can be considered a moral panic
• Identifies the folk devils in the moral panic around drugs, giving specific examples
• Describes how the media has been an important component of this moral panic, giving specific examples
• Discusses the impact of the drug moral panic - who has been harmed, who has benefited, and what tangible consequences have there been?

Your essay should be free of spelling, grammar, and sentence structure errors, and should have paragraphs to denote transition (at a minimum, think four prompts, four paragraphs of three or more sentences each). You should draw on all three assigned materials (Bonn 2015; Robinson 2018; Weber-Smith 2019) and cite them both in-text and in a bibliography at the end of your essay.

Material:

Revisit your notes about moral panic from Ch. 2 (pg. 59-69)

Read Bonn, S. (2015, July 20). Moral panic: Who benefits from public fear?

Listen to Weber-Smith, C. (Executive Producer). (2019, March 11). Drugs [Audio Podcast Episode].