The culture of fear and Waiton's (2002) proposition that we are ‘scared of the kids'

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Sociology - Children and Youth, grade: 1,1, University of Abertay Dundee, language: English, abstract: Historically, public discourses have used the threats young people appear to pose, as a barometer of social ills and an indicator of society's moral decline (Brannen et al. 1994). Particularly nowadays this tendency is reflected in the increasing ‘evidence’...