ABSTRACT
The moral outrage' or moral panic' in the press showed the Great Tree people as young people with a perception of time diametrically opposed to that of the dominant culture. More specifically, the time concept of gang members and that of the police were on several occasions contradictory. The police tried to show the activity of the peer groups as linear, pointing in time and sequence towards some concrete goal, and not just to occasional meetings. This also explains why official discourse devised the concept of galeri, drawing on public utterances about Soviet hooliganism. Prompted only by the various police procedures against them, these informants identified themselves as galeri members' and loafers' and portrayed their activities, as recorded in edited responses to constructed questions, as purposeful and sequential. The urban spaces used by the Great Tree Gang belonged to the most controlled and representative spaces of the socialist capital of the socialist Hungary'.
