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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Beck, Richard, 1986- author.     Subjects     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Beck, Richard, 1986- author.       by title:      We believe the child...         MARC Display

We believe the children : a moral panic in the 1980s / Richard Beck. by Beck, Richard, 1986- author. New York : PublicAffairs, c2015. Subjects 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. ISBN:  9781610392877 (hardcover) : 1610392876 (hardcover) Description:  xxv, 323 pages ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  The discovery of child abuse -- McMartin : allegations -- Prosecutors -- McMartin : the preliminary hearing -- FBI, DSM, XXX -- McMartin : the trial -- Two families -- McMartin : the verdict -- Therapists and survivors -- Repression and desire. Requests:  0 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. "--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 362.76097 Be Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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