Moral Panics are very exciting, aren't they? You need to know about them for AS and A2 so I've put other stuff on the blog in the past but here's some more, specifically relating to the 'satanic panic' that occurred in the US and UK in the 80's and 90's. Below are some links to articles as well as a book and a video! The book 'Why people believe weird things' is worth reading anyway, hence my decision to put a 'general journalism' tag on this post. Enjoy!
A full stop to the Satanic panic
A BBC documentary reminds us how irrational were the fears of ritual abuse in the 80s and 90s. Yet the view that parents can't be trusted lives on.
When Satan came to town
Five families in Rochdale were wrongly separated
In 1990 the Devil came to Rochdale.
Lost years of 'satanic panic' children
In 1990, families on a council estate in north Manchester woke up to every parent's worst nightmare. With no warning, police and social workers had come to take their children.
Wiki on Satanic ritual abuse
The 'Martensville Nightmare' Ritual Abuse case
Wiki on Moral Panics
Free E-Book! Michael Shermer - Why People Believe Weird Things. I'm reading this at the moment, chapters on satanic panic and other stuff, very good.
Too lazy/stupid to read his book? Why am I not surprised? Okay, pillock, watch the video instead.
Skeptic Magazine is very interesting, edited by Shermer.
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