Abstract
![CDATA[According the the Macquarie Dictionary of New Words, hoon is an Australianism, with the earliest citation found in Xavier Herbert's Capricornia of 1938: a hoon being "that sort of flash person who fangs their car around for amusement". Hoon can also refer to those persons partaking in a careless, self-indulgent practice, and it is in this sense that Herbert used the term. It was not until the mid-1990s that the current hoon discourse gathered consistency across mass-media and political registers. The recurring discursive and televisual imagery used in these moral panics was of "hoons" taking over or "controlling" the streets.]]
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia |
| Editors | Scott Poynting, George Morgan |
| Place of Publication | Hobart, Tas |
| Publisher | ACYS |
| Pages | 125-136 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781875236596 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Keywords
- juvenile delinequency
- moral panics
- mass media
- Australia
- public opinion