Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt - Softcover

Nathan, Debbie; Michael Snedeker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595189555 ISBN 13: 9780595189557

Publisher: iUniverse, 2001

Synopsis

Communities throughout the United States were convulsed in the 1980s and early 1990s by accusations, often without a shred of serious evidence, that respectable men and women in their midstmany of them trusted preschool teacherssecretly gathered in far reaching conspiracies to rape and terrorize children. In this powerful book, Debbie Nathan and Mike Snedeker examine the forces fueling this blind panic.

About this title

From the Publisher:

A powerfully written book that goes beyond documenting individual abuse cases to sound a general alarm about a dangerous national hysteria.

About the Author:

Debbie Nathan is a nationally published journalist whose award-winning critiques of ritual sex abuse prosecutions appear in her essay collection, Women and Other Aliens. She lives in New York. Michael Snedeker practices law in California. Author of a novel (Down in the Valley) and a handbook of prison law, he lives in Portland, Oregon.

About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0595189555
• ISBN 13: 9780595189557
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336