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Moral panic : changing concepts of the child molester in modern America /

"It is commonly acknowledged that sexual abuse of children is a grave and pervasive problem and that child molesters are predators who compulsively repeat their crimes and have little hope of cure. Yet as recently as twenty years ago many experts viewed the problem as a far less serious one, de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jenkins, Philip, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Creating facts
  • Constructing the sex crime, 1890-1934
  • The age of the psychopath, 1935-1957
  • The sex psychopath statutes
  • The liberal era, 1958-1976
  • The child abuse revolution, 1976-1986
  • Child pornography and pedophile rings
  • The road to hell: ritual abuse and recovered memory
  • Full circle: the return of the sexual predator in the 1990s
  • A cycle of panic.