In Risk and Blame, Anthropologist Mary Douglas describes the cultural basis for witch hunts in traditional societies. "Whether the witch is able to do harm or not, the attribution of a hidden power to hurt is a weapon of attack against them....A successful accusation is one that has enough credibility for a public outcry to remove the opportunity of repeating the damage." A moral panic starts with an unspeakable tragedy which sparks an attempt …showed first 75 words of 1119 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1119 total…his school it wouldn’t matter if he listened to Michael Bolton records every night he would still have done that. We need to own up to our flaws and stop looking to teen culture as a way to place blame and instead of wasting time placing blame maybe put more money into actually helping kids who need mental or emotional help and take some action instead of sitting back and hoping someone else does.