Dr. Vince Hurley

It's legit.

It's come down.

It's halved in the last, at least the last 10 years.

Yeah.

What happens is that, and I hate bringing academia into this.

You can't help it.

We know you're a doctor, doctor.

There's a thing, a theory called moral panic.

And it came up in the 1960s when over in England, there was groups called the Mods and the Rockers.

And the Mods were blokes driving around on scooters, motorbikes,

With clean cart, you know, wearing ties, cardigans, all that type of stereotype.

Then the rockers came along filled with letters, leather gear, you know, black leather gear, riding these, you know, bikes.

And there was a study by the name of Stanley Cohen.

And he couldn't work out why there was this panic amongst the community about the rockers, these emergence of what seemed to be these outlaw individuals.

Yeah.

And he came up with this theory called moral panic.

And moral panic says that the media take an image or something's happening in society and they break it down to really simplistic views and sell it to the media.

Pauline Hanson is a great example of moral panic when she walks into parliament with that burqa on.

So it's a simple way of just looking – the media focus on a specific issue like youth crime and create this notion that it's out of control.

Now, I'm not saying as a former police officer they don't fucking deserve to be arrested.