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Zusatztext As Gloria Steinem has said multiple times, we can try to save people from drowning one at a time, or go to the top of the river where they are falling in, and prevent these mishaps from happening at all. Cheit is at the top of the river. Now, psychologists need to come together and get there too. Informationen zum Autor Ross E. Cheit is Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Brown University. Klappentext In the 1980s, a series of child sex abuse cases rocked the United States. The most famous case was the 1984 McMartin preschool case, but there were a number of others as well. By the latter part of the decade, the assumption was widespread that child sex abuse had become a serious problem in America. Yet within a few years, the concern about it died down considerably. The failure to convict anyone in the McMartin case and a widely publicized appellate decision in New Jersey that freed an accused molester had turned the dominant narrative on its head. In the early 1990s, a new narrative with remarkable staying power emerged: the child sex abuse cases were symptomatic of a "moral panic" that had produced a witch hunt. A central claim in this new witch hunt narrative was that the children who testified were not reliable and easily swayed by prosecutorial suggestion. In time, the notion that child sex abuse was a product of sensationalized over-reporting and far less endemic than originally thought became the new common sense. Zusammenfassung The Witch-Hunt Narrative is a magisterial and empirically powerful account of the social dynamics that led, in the early 1990s, to widespread popular skepticism about the veracity of child sex abuse claims. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Part One: The Rise of the Witch-Hunt Narrative Chapter 1 Introduction: The Infamous Child Sexual Abuse Cases of the 1980s Chapter 2 The McMartin Preschool Case (1983-1990) Chapter 3 Scrutinizing the Evidence of a National "Witch Hunt" Chapter 4 History Ignored: Silence, Denial and Minimization Part One Conclusion Part Two: The Triumph of the Witch-Hunt Narrative Chapter 5 The Turning Point: State v. Michaels Chapter 6 Going to Extremes: State v. Fuster Part Two Conclusion Part Three: Recent Developments Chapter 7 The Legacy of the Witch-Hunt Narrative Acknowledgments Bibliographic Notes Acknowledgements ...
