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Beck, Richard, 1986-
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McMartin Preschool (Manhattan Beach, Calif.)
Child sexual abuse -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Ritual abuse -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Ritual abuse -- United States -- History.
Recovered memory.
Child witnesses.
Child care workers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
False arrest -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Moral panics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Beck, Richard, 1986-
McMartin Preschool (Manhattan Beach, Calif.)
Child sexual abuse -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Ritual abuse -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Ritual abuse -- United States -- History.
Recovered memory.
Child witnesses.
Child care workers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
False arrest -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Moral panics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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We believe the children : a
moral
panic in the 1980s / Richard Beck.
by
Beck, Richard, 1986-
PublicAffairs, [2015]
Call #:
362.76 B393w
Subjects
McMartin Preschool (Manhattan Beach, Calif.)
Child sexual abuse
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Ritual abuse
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Ritual abuse
--
United
States
--
History
.
Recovered memory.
Child witnesses.
Child care workers
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
False arrest
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Moral
panics
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
ISBN:
9781610392877 (hc.)
1610392876 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Moral
panic in the 1980s
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xxv, 323 pages ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-308) and index.
Contents:
The discovery of child abuse
--
McMartin : allegations
--
Prosecutors
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McMartin : the preliminary hearing
--
FBI, DSM, XXX
--
McMartin : the trial
--
Two families
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McMartin : the verdict
--
Therapists and survivors
--
Repression and desire.
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 and drawing interviews with the hysteria's major figures, 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.
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