Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America
This timely book traces shifting social responses to adult sexual contacts with children, whether this involves molestation by strangers or incestuous acts by family members. While not minimizing sexual abuse of children, the book places reactions to the problem in a broad political & cultural context.
GenresChild molestersUnited StatesPsychologyChild sexual abuse
302 pages, 4 editions
English edition · First published 1998 by Yale University Press · ISBN 9780300073874
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Editions
4 editions
English
- Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America · Yale University Press · 1998 · ISBN 9780300073874 This page
- Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America · Yale University Press · 2008 · ISBN 9780300148534
- Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America · Yale University Press · 2008 · ISBN 9780585358550
- Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America · Yale University Press · 1998 · ISBN 9780300109634
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