The Ritual Abuse Controversy: An Annotated Bibliography - Softcover

De Young, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786412593 ISBN 13: 9780786412594

Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2002

Synopsis

The ritual abuse of children is the most controversial issue in the child maltreatment field, but much of what has been written about ritual abuse over the past twenty years is in the form of unpublished and endlessly reproduced "stuff"--a curious mixture of conjecture, folkloric and pop-culture representations of satanism, devil worship, occultism and witchcraft, and Christian Fundamentalist images of premillennarian evil. What remains after this "stuff" is excluded is an intriguing body of international literature that seriously examines the controversy. This annotated bibliography dissects the literature, objectively and thoroughly annotates published articles, books and reports, legal opinions, and occasionally, thought-provoking newspaper and magazine articles. Chapters deal with the definition of ritual abuse, ritual abuse cases in the United States, cases in American families and neighborhoods, cases in Canada, Europe and Australasia, clinical features of ritual abuse in children and adults, the controversy's impact on professionals and systems, the controversy and American law, ritual abuse reports and narratives, and anthropological, folkloric and sociological perspectives.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary de Young, a professor of sociology at Grand Valley State University, lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Review:

"powerful...excellent...poignant...revealing...recommended for all libraries and for general readers, students, teachers, professionals, and practitioners"--Choice.

About this edition

• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0786412593
• ISBN 13: 9780786412594
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248