本文对霍尔在伯明翰时期最重要的著作——《控制危机》一书的主要内容进行了批判性综述，对霍尔和科恩的道德恐慌研究范式进行了比较，并探讨了该书的理论和方法贡献及其存在的问题。文章认为，霍尔等人的研究通过葛兰西的文化霸权理论，对科恩的道德恐慌过程分析模式进行了历史制度主义改造，把道德恐慌看作是广泛的社会文化霸权和政治统治合法性危机的一种意识形态形式。这种历史制度的批判视角，对研究转型期中国社会的各种道德危机话语有借鉴意义，但在运用其理论和方法框架时，必须注意甄别主要分析对象的制度结构和历史语境的差异。

In this article, one of Stuart Hall’s seminal works in his Birmingham era, Policing the Crisis, is critically reviewed. In comparison with Stanly Cohen’s classic model of moral panics, Stuart Hall et al. transformed Cohen’s processual paradigm by appropriating Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, which assumes moral panics about mugging and youth culture are basically an ideological representation of fundamental hegemonic crisis that fractured the once consensual relationship between state and society. In spite of major differences of sociopolitical contexts, the critical institutional-historical approach to moral panics and social crisis adopted in Policing the Crisis is relevant to studies on ever-rising moral crisis and media discourse in the fast transforming Chinese society.