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Author:

Beck, Richard, 1986- author.

Title:

We believe the children : a moral panic in the 1980s / Richard Beck.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

PublicAffairs,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xxv, 323 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

1900 - 1999
Child sexual abuse--United States--History--20th century.
Ritual abuse--United States--History--20th century.
Child care workers--United States--History--20th century.
False arrest--United States--History--20th century.
Moral panics--United States--History--20th century.
HISTORY / Social History.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology.
Child care workers.
Child sexual abuse.
False arrest.
Moral panics.
Ritual abuse.
United States.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-308) and index.

Summary:

"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 committing 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. Using extensive archival research conducted in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Minneapolis, and elsewhere, and drawing on dozens of interviews conducted with the hysteria's major figures, n+1 editor Richard Beck shows how a group of legislators, doctors, lawyers, and parents, most working with the best of intentions, set the stage for a cultural disaster. Psychiatrists and talk therapists turned dubious theories of trauma and recovered memory into a destructive new kind of psychotherapy. Social workers and detectives employed coercive interviewing techniques that led children to tell them what they wanted to hear. The climate of fear that surrounded these cases influenced a whole series of arguments about women, children, and sex that had been intensifying for some twenty years. At the root of these accusations were competing visions of society and what it was that threatened it most. "-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1610392876
9781610392877

LCCN:

2015011572

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)