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„One of the effects of retaining the notion of ‘moral panic’ is the penetration it provides into the otherwise extremely obscure means by which the working classes are drawn in to processes which are occurring in large measure ‘behind their backs’, and led to experience and respond to contradictory developments in ways which make the operation of state power legitimate, credible and consensual. To put it crudely, the ‘moral panic’ appears to us to be one of the principal forms of ideological consciousness by means of which a ‘silent majority’ is won over to the support of increasingly coercive measures on the part of the state, and lends its legitimacy to a ‘more than usual’ exercise of control.“ (Hall et al., 2013, p. 218) sic!;„One of the effects of retaining the notion of ‘moral panic’ is the penetration it provides into the otherwise extremely obscure means by which the working classes are drawn in to processes which are occurring in large measure ‘behind their backs’, and led to experience and respond to contradictory developments in ways which make the operation of state power legitimate, credible and consensual. To put it crudely, the ‘moral panic’ appears to us to be one of the principal forms of ideological consciousness by means of which a ‘silent majority’ is won over to the support of increasingly coercive measures on the part of the state, and lends its legitimacy to a ‘more than usual’ exercise of control.“ (Hall et al., 2013, p. 218) sic!