Viešajame diskurse žiniasklaida neretai pristatoma kaip pilietinės visuomenės institucija, informuojanti gyventojus apie svarbias politines, socialines, ekonomines bei kitas problemas. Šiuo požiūriu visuomenės informavimo priemonių domėjimasis kriminalinės justicijos problemomis, kaip savotišku socialinės tvarkos rodikliu, yra suprantamas dalykas. Tačiau žiniasklaida atlieka ne vien informacijos skleidimo funkciją. Norint suprasti visuomenės ir socialinės kontrolės agentų reakciją į deviaciją, didelės svarbos turi informacijos, gaunamos apie tą elgesį, prigimtis, galinti įtakoti visuomenės atsaką į ją. Šiuolaikinės žiniasklaidos tyrinėtojai didelį dėmesį skiria jos politinėms (tarpininkas tarp valdžios ir piliečių) bei komercinėms (masinė informacijos gamyba ir platinimas) funkcijoms. Taigi, viena vertus, reaguodama į visuomenės moraliniu požiūriu jautrias problemas, o, kita vertus, siekdama komercinių tikslų ir orientuodamasi į sensacingą kriminalinių įvykių pateikimą, žiniasklaida dramatizuoja kriminalinės justicijos problemas. Šiame kontekste svarbus masinių informavimo priemonių vaidmuo konstruojant moralinę paniką tam tikros problemos atžvilgiu, kuri suponuoja neadekvatų situacijos vertinimą, griežtesnę socialinę kontrolę bei naujų problemų kūrimą. Šio darbo rėmuose buvo bandoma išanalizuoti žiniasklaidos įtaką moralinės panikos konstravimui narkotikų problematikos atžvilgiu. Didžiausio Lietuvos naujienų portalo "Delfi" narkotikų diskurso, visuomenės, valdžios atstovų... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Mass media is usually presented as a civil society institution informing citizens about political, social, economic and other issues. From this standpoint, media’s interest in criminal justice, which maintains social control and is responsible for the safety of citizens, is quite natural. However it is also important to consider media’s political and commercial functions, since they have great impact on the nature of information about deviant acts. At the same time information received about deviant acts could affect certain societal responses towards this behavior. The extreme form of this social reaction is associated with the concept of moral panics (St. Cohen, J. Young). Moral panic is perceived as a disproportional and hostile social reaction to an issue defined as a threat to societal values, involving stereotypical media presentation and leading to demands for greater social control and creating a spiral of reaction. The aim of the presented work was to analyze the impact of mass media constructing moral panics towards drug problem. The analysis of the Lithuanian biggest news portal “Delfi” drug discourse, the attention paid by society, authorities and criminal justice institutions towards drug problem, indicated inadequacy with the indexes of drug use spread and negative outcomes during the examined period. Increased attention towards drug issue in Lithuanian society corresponded with five key characteristics of moral panics: disproportionality of reaction, measurable... [to full text]

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Diplomová práce se věnuje popisu a analýze chování institucí finančního sektoru, tj. komerčního a centrálního bankovnictví USA v období Velké hospodářské krize. Zkoumá faktory, které mohly společně zapříčinit bezprecedentní bankovní kolaps na začátku třicátých let. Cílem práce je nabídnout přehledný a srozumitelný obraz o tom, jak americký finanční systém a její instituce, zejména komerční banky, Federální rezervní systém a zlatý standard, fungovaly v době Velké hospodářské krize. Velký prostor je věnován roli, kterou během události sehrál Federální rezervní systém prostřednictvím své strategie během dvacátých let a v době krize. V souvislosti s Velkou hospodářskou krizí zůstává jednou z nejvíce diskutovaných témat role Federálního rezervního systému. Dále práce obsahuje analýzu jednotlivých vln bankovních krizí, a to jak z mikroekonomického, tak i z makroekonomického pohledu. Věnuje se též problematikám omezení ?branch bankingu?, bankovním panikám a ?uvěrové expanze?. Z časového hlediska je téma diskutovaná do vyhlášení ?bankovních prázdnin? a přijetí zákona The Banking Act z roku 1933.

This thesis is focused on the media behaviour and strategy on behalf of the chosen cases in the Czech Republic. The way for the main analyses is to identify the moral panic indicators, which are compared to the real media bahaviour. The key cases are "bacteria Listeria" and "Heparin's murder Zelenka". The communication strategy was analyzed from the released articles and pictures of two Czech daily journals MF DNES and HN. The quantitative part of thesis is concentrated on the data overview and journals'trends in time. The main aim is to confirm or deny the hypothesis of partial proportion both cases within journals. The qualitative part shows using emotionally strong words and communication strategy.

The content of the master these sis case study of counter-terrorism measures in th UK and their impact on human rights. The work detaily monitors the development of the counter-terrorist measureas after the 11th of September attacks in the USA. To uderstand the adoption of the legislative measures are used the optics of moral panic which intensify the fear of another attacks. The work analyzes in detail how the measures developed and what is their impact on human rights. It Appears there is consensus on the political spectrum about the aim of the counter-terrorism laws. In addition there are showed law suits presenting the real life struggle about the human rights. Since the UK was not long ago part of the EU text provides short examples on how i tis in other EU countries

Presented diploma thesis is occupied with issues of so-called "social parasitism" in the socialist Czechoslovakia in early normalization era. It follows existence of a law term "social parasitism", or more precisely independent paragraph which criminalized "fishy ways of livelihood" and "avoiding righteous job" within the Czechoslovakia penal code. I would like to observe this marginal social phenomenon in a broad perspective. So-called "social parasitism" is understood as a normative, disciplinary and symbolical category which defined basic value hierarchy of socialistic society and had to help make a new consensus for conditions consolidations in 1968. The focal point of the thesis is considering on the environment of Prague in 1969-75 with an aim to analyse the function and role of "social parasitism" in political administration of district authorities, media discourse of local press and in a practice of security authority. The "social parasitism" oppression is explained as an attempt of communist dictatorship and its institutions for creating a moral panic as a restoration tool of undermined legitimacy power in the eyes of Czechoslovakian society after 1968. Key words: social parasitism, criminality, social disciplination, moral panic, Normalization time in Czechoslovakia

This thesis describes and explains rumours as sociological phenomenon. It deals with circumstances under which rumour arises, how it spreads and how it persists in society. It also deals with the prerequisites for understanding the transmission and any believing in rumour. Emphasis is placed on understanding the rumours without negative connotations which is mostly attributed to it. The theory of fictional worlds brings idea that rumour should not be always fictional, fictitious and a priori negative, but rather should be considered as possibly true, especially in terms of the phenomenon, which it refers. It does not matter how many different variations of the rumour story exist, since all create a frame of reference through which is better spread the rumour; adoption of the rumours is not a sign of fiction, but rather a prerequisite to embed among people. The thesis promotes the view that a rumour is spread mainly due to its content and message, which is mainly a warning. The aim is not to pass the exact story, but to warn about a phenomenon that occurs in society. It is not important wheather the rumour is true in each detail, because the only important aspect is truth of phenomenon which the rumour refers to. Keywords Rumour, theory of possible worlds, conspiracy theories, contemporary legend,...

Britų kriminologai Stanley’is Cohenas ir Jockas Youngas sukūrė teorinį modelį, kuris paaiškina, kaip žiniasklaida, manipuliuodama informacija apie narkotinių medžiagų vartojimo keliamą pavojų, sustiprina deviaciją. Magistro darbe, remiantis S. Coheno moralinės panikos ir J. Youngo deviacijos amplifikacijos teorijomis, nagrinėjamas narkotikų baimės poveikis psichiką veikiančių medžiagų kriminalizavimo procesui dabartinėje Lietuvoje. Ginama magistro darbo tezė – narkotikų baimė yra vienas iš psichiką veikiančių medžiagų kriminalizavimo veiksnių dabartinėje Lietuvoje. Atsižvelgiant į problemos specifiką, darbe naudojama metodų trianguliacija – derinami kiekybiniai ir kokybiniai sociologinių tyrimų metodai. VU pirmosios pakopos ir vientisųjų studijų studentų požiūrio anketinė apklausa atskleidė, kaip manipuliavimas informacija viešajame diskurse veikia studentų požiūrį į narkotinių medžiagų vartojimo problemą. Studentų reakcija į narkotinių medžiagų vartojimo problemą – tai pirmasis deviacijos amplifikacijos proceso etapas. Studentai teigia, kad ši problema Lietuvoje yra labai paplitusi ir siūlo ją spręsti represinėmis priemonėmis. Antrasis deviacijos amplifikacijos proceso etapas yra žiniasklaidos reakcija į deviaciją. Atlikus naujienų portalo delfi.lt skaitytojų komentarų kokybinę turinio analizę, nustatyti du moralinės panikos dėl narkotikų požymiai: šių medžiagų vartotojai vaizduojami kaip nevidonai, o narkotinių medžiagų vartojimo problema – kaip nesustabdomai plintanti liga... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Sociological and criminological theories illuminated to the role of the mass media in deviance amplification process in the middle of 20th century. British criminologist Stanley Cohen was among the first to draw attention how the mass media is manipulating public fear of illicit drugs users. Another British criminologist Jock Young has developed a theoretical model which theoretically explains the connection between the public reaction to deviance and deviance amplification. He called this explanation the deviance amplification spiral model. J. Young argued that the mass media creates public fear of illicit drugs which exerts pressure upon legislator, police and courts to take action against illicit drugs use. This study is based on S. Cohen's moral panic and J. Young's deviance amplification theories. It is grounded in the analysis of data collected in four sociological investigations: (1) Vilnius University students attitudes survey; (2) qualitative content analysis of the readers' comments in the news portal delfi.lt; (3) qualitative and quantitative content analysis of the Lithuanian Parliament's plenary meeting stenographs and (4) expert interviews. The main thesis: the drugs fear is one of the factors of psychoactive substances criminalization in present-day Lithuania. Vilnius University students attitudes survey results show that the most of the respondents are convinced that illicit drugs problem is very widespread in present-day Lithuania, and the most effective way... [to full text]

The term crisis of journalism is widely discussed nowadays. This paper examines whether journalism is in crisis, or whether it is a development caused by changes in the digital world. It also examines possible causes of this crisis and transformation in the digital world. One of the main causes of this is a perceived loss of credibility of the information given to the public. Therefore, there is a deeper interpretation of what trust and trustworthiness is and what can dis/trust cause in the society. In the context of the changes which journalism faces today, it describes the transformation of the role of the audience to active self-editor and outlines how the audience must orientate in the news itself. Otherwise, the media focused on earnings will continue to thrive on sensationalism and moral panics that will negatively effect social reality. In the empirical part this paper deals with the case of Břeclav in 2012, which is an exemplary example of moral panic with consequences.

The aim of this thesis is to document the importance of liquidity resources of central banks during banking panics and financial crises and analysis of the development of LLR function. We examined three historical examples: the banking panic of 1866, the Great Depression and the current financial crisis, and we focused on the interaction between the demand for liquidity on the one hand and the supply of liquidity by central banks on the other. On the wide historical background we also analysed the changes in the function of LLR. We present that a restrictive monetary policy during financial market distortions may lead to further disturbances and cause serious recession. The analysis of the BoE during 1866 and of the FED between 2007 and 2009, on the contrary shows that the expansionary stance and considerably endogenous liquidity supply are able to reduce financial market's distortions and mitigate possible recession. Analysis of FED's reaction also indicated that should the LLR remain efficient, central banks must expand their instruments portfolio.