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Others see them as simply reinforcing what we already believe; either way the public find themselves at risk of living in fear and being discriminative towards these groups labelled as ‘folk devils’. The term ‘Folk Devils’, from which moral panics followed, was famously used by ex-prime minister Edward Heath and since then the list has been added to. After the 9/11 attacks terrorists have been the base of a new moral panic that is still prevalent even today. Some say that moral panics are simply media constructions, as is demonstrated in Cohen’s study of the mods and rockers. Cohen found that the groups at the time were not at all polarized, but the media played on the idea of ‘mods and rockers’ and so creating two new gangs which set up public fear of youth subcultures. Muncie (1987, p.43) describes this in terms of labelling, “they had been singled out as society’s ‘folk devils’ and acted out their role accordingly in subsequent years”. However not all agree that these moral panics are the cause of the media’s influence on our fear of crime, but simply as reinforcing what people already know (Crawford et al 1990, cited in Muncie 1996 p.57). However, the mods and rockers behaviour was not new as Pearson’s study on Hooliganism found similar behaviour to Teddy boys being played out here; yet the mods and rockers were the only group up to this point to reach the headlines. The way in which the media presented this story must have had an impact otherwise it would’ve been treated the same as the Teddy boys, and so shows that the way the media portrays criminal acts does influence public fear of