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We Believe the Children: The Story of a Moral Panic by Richard Beck
5 reviews
embre's review against another edition
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Torture, Medical trauma, Incest, and Forced institutionalization
thelittlebookgoblin's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Incest, and Child abuse
Moderate: Homophobia
adam_ant's review against another edition
4.25
Outside of the true crime cases, the book also delves into how the satanic panic contextually relates to where politics, science, and culture were at that time- criminal justice, forensic psychology, child psychology, the feminist political movement, the religious right, psychiatry (specifically its nascent understanding of repressed memory and dissociative identities)... It's in these sections, when the book zooms out from the gruesome details of individual cases, that I found it most interesting and informative.
Graphic: Sexual violence, Incest, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Pedophilia
jennifer_bush_73's review
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Medical content, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
thatdistantlake's review
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Excrement, Incest, Mental illness, and Alcoholism
The author discusses the allegations of ritual abuse, & while they didn't actually happen, the descriptions themselves are disturbing. There's also some discussion of actual child abuse & pedophilia.