English-Portuguese translations for moral panic

• pânico moral
  Todavia, não queremos encorajar o chamado pânico moral, incentivando os cidadãos a denunciar alguém sem terem suspeitas substanciais. However, we do not wish to encourage moral panic by encouraging citizens to report anyone without relevant suspicions.
  O risco é que uma preocupação razoável se transforme, nalguns casos, num "pânico moral" intencionalmente desproporcionado em relação à dimensão do problema. The danger is that a justifiable concern in some cases turns into a 'moral panic' that is wilfully disproportionate to the extent of the problem.

Definition of moral panic

• A semi-spontaneous or media-generated mass movement based on the perception that an individual, group, community, or culture is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society. A public outcry

Related words

• moral
• amoral
• morals
• immoral
• morality
• tumoral
• morale
• immorality
• femoral
• morally