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„And part of our intention is certainly to situate the ‘moral panic’ as one of the forms of appearance of a more deep-seated historical crisis, and thereby to give it greater historical and theoretical specificity. This relocation of the concept on a different and deeper level of analysis does not, however, lead us to abandon it altogether as useless. Rather, it helps us to identify the ‘moral panic’ as one of the principal surface manifestations of the crisis, and in part to explain how and why the crisis came to be experienced in that form of consciousness, and what the displacement of a conjunctural crisis into the popular form of a ‘moral panic’ accomplishes, in terms of the way the crisis is managed and contained.“ (Hall et al., 2013, p. 218);„And part of our intention is certainly to situate the ‘moral panic’ as one of the forms of appearance of a more deep-seated historical crisis, and thereby to give it greater historical and theoretical specificity. This relocation of the concept on a different and deeper level of analysis does not, however, lead us to abandon it altogether as useless. Rather, it helps us to identify the ‘moral panic’ as one of the principal surface manifestations of the crisis, and in part to explain how and why the crisis came to be experienced in that form of consciousness, and what the displacement of a conjunctural crisis into the popular form of a ‘moral panic’ accomplishes, in terms of the way the crisis is managed and contained.“ (Hall et al., 2013, p. 218)