TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cheit,Ross E.
TI  - The witch-hunt narrative: politics, psychology, and the sexual abuse of children 
SN  - 9780199355853 (ebook) :
AV  - HV6570.2 
U1  - 362.76097309045 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Child sexual abuse
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Investigation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Child sexual abuse became part of the public discourse in 1984 with a series of high-profile criminal cases involving day-care centres, many of which were eventually seen as 'witch-hunts'. Under this view, the charges were the result of suggestive interviewing, over-zealous prosecutors, and a gullible press. This is the first scholarly book to challenge that view. Based on fifteen years of original trial court research, it argues that the evidence for the witch-hunt narrative is weak at best, in many cases ignoring significant evidence of abuse and in others ignoring complexity
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199931224.001.0001
ER  -