Finishes: Colors & Stains

Stanley Cohen characterized folk devils as visible reminders of what we should not be. The identities of such social types are public property  (1972, p. 10).

As a social theory or sociological concept, the concept was first developed in the United Kingdom by Stanley Cohen, who introduced the phrase moral panic in a 1967 1969 PhD thesis that became the basis for his 1972 book Folk Devils and Moral Panics.