Showing posts with label moral panics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moral panics. Show all posts

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Sniffer Dogs as Tough Love Parenting

Came across this privatised service for parents on the BBC - sniffer dogs to search their kids bedrooms. 

Part of the deal is if they find something they dob your child up to the police.  Thus ensuring not only that they have completely violated their child's trust but that they have also severely damaged their future life by getting them a criminal record.

Utter madness

Sunday, 6 December 2009

Girl Gangs - from over half a century ago

There have been many recent news stories about the new phenomenon of girl violence including these in the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Sun and the Times.

Stories like this always suggest this is something new. These trailers for 1957 show that even in this "golden age" fears of delinquent girls was apparent.






Maybe time to ask your Mums and Grans what they got up to!