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Moral Panic

Changing concepts of the child molester
in modern America

Philip Jenkins

Yale University Press, New haven & London, 1998
ISBN 0-300-07387-9

Table of contents

Book cover  

Notes
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chapter

Acknowledgments ix
Notes on usage  xi
1. Creating facts  1 241
2. Constructing Sex Crime, 1890-1934 20 243
3. The Age of the Sex Psychopath, 1935-1957 49 250
4. The Sex Psychopath Statutes  75 256
5. The Liberal Era, 1958-1976  94 258
6 The Child Abuse Revolution, 1976-1986 118 262
7. Child Pornography and Pedophile Rings 145 270
8. The Road to Hell: Ritual Abuse and Recovered Memory 164 275
9. Full Circle: The Return of the Sexual Predator in the 1990s 189 283
10. A Cycle of Panic 215 289
List of abbreviations 239  
Notes [are given by chapter] 241  
Index 293