We believe the children : a moral panic in the 1980s
Beck, Richard, 1986-2015
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During the 1980s in California, New Jersey and New York, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Ohio, and elsewhere, daycare workers were arrested, charged, tried and convicted of commiting horrible sexual crimes against the children they cared for. These crimes, social workers and prosecutors said, had gone undetected for years, and they consisted of a brutality and sadism that defied all imagining. But none of it happened. It was a decade-long outbreak of collective hysteria on a par with the Salem Witch Trials. Using extensive archival research and drawing on dozens of interviews conducted with the hysteria's major figures, this book shows how a group of legislators, doctors, lawyers and parents, most working with the best of intentions, set the stage for a cultural disaster.
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We believe the children : a moral panic in the 1980s / Richard Beck.
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New York : PublicAffairs, 2015.
Collation:
352 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781610392877 (hbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2212203
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