Grooming Gang Moral Panic

Grooming Gang Moral Panic. What the papers say The truths about the grooming gangs The Spectator This reporting, and subsequent media coverage, often emphasised the ethnicity of offenders. Several Conservative and Reform UK politicians have alleged that race was a factor in "grooming gangs" (a term which has been described by academics and child protection professionals as racially charged)

This reporting, and subsequent media coverage, often emphasised the ethnicity of offenders. The result is thousands of abused girls and a scandal.

Grooming gangs Police 'do not accurately understand issue'

Recently the United Kingdom has been beset by a moral panic concerning gangs grooming girls for sexual exploitation The title of the Wikipedia article about Muslim grooming gangs in Britain has this week been changed to include the phrase "moral panic" From the late 1980s until 2013, group-based child sexual exploitation affected an estimated 1,400 girls, commonly from care home backgrounds, in the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.Between 1997 and 2013, girls were abused by "grooming gangs" of predominantly British-Pakistani men

Grooming Gangs Britain's Shame Saturday 11th February 2023. Many aspects of the construction of the 'Asian sex gang predator' 19 as Britain's newest folk devil recall 1970s Britain's archetypal moral panic around mugging (Ed.) Gendered Domestic Violence and Abuse in Popular Culture ( Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender ), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp

Grooming Gangs Britain's Shame Saturday 11th February 2023. Grooming children has been criminalised by section 15 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003. The introductory paragraph states that the "Muslim grooming gang panic is a moral panic alleging that Asian (specifically South Asian, Pakistani and Muslim) men are sexually abusing young White girls in the United Kingdom."