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A

Abbott, Edith, 32

Abel, Gene, 137
Abortion, 13, 58, 99, 110,120, 125,156,219

Abrahamsen, David, 80, 91,100, 105

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), 125, 158, 195, 224

Addams, Jane, 33

Adolescence, concept of, 225, 290

Adultery, 14, 22-23, 75

African-Americans, 88-89, 95--98.

See also Lynching

Age of consent, 23-25.

See also Statutory rape AIDS.
See Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Alabama, 36, 95,115

Alaska, 203

America On-Line (AOL), 209, 211-12

American Bar Association, 78

American Civil Liberties Union, 12.1-24, 200

American Humane Association, 120, 129, 135, 138

American Psychiatric Association, 65, 73, 124, 161,218

American Purity Alliance, 31, 246

Anal sex, 22-23, 29, 33, 62.

See also Sodomy

Anti-Catholicism, 176

Anti-Semitism, 12, 36, 174,176

Arizona, 192

Atascadero, California, 88--89

Atlanta, Georgia, murder cases in, 36, 132, 139, 158, 221

Attica, 113

Australia, 105, 169, 230-31

B

Baby boom.

See Demographic factors

Backlash, against child abuse claims, 186-88

Bakersfield, California, 165-66, 168, 180

Baltimore, Maryland, 31, 101

Barr, Roseanne, 182

Bazelon, David, 115

Behavior modification, 18,112, 116-17, 173-75, 236.

See also Sex offenders, treatment of

Belgium, 159, 231

"Believe the Children," 172-73,177

Bernardin,Joseph (Cardinal), 184 

Bestiality, 13,22,42, 209-10 

Bloch, Robert, 56

Blood libel.

See Anti-Semitism

Blume, E. Sue, 130, 181

Boies, Henry, 30

Boise, Idaho, 62, 157

Boston, Massachusetts:

adultery cases, 22;
child molestation, 52;
murders in, 35,222;
sex-rings (alleged), 157-58.
See also
Mass.;
Press: Boston Globe

Bowman, Karl, 59

"Boy-Iove," concept of, 8,145, 156.

See also Pedederasts

Breckinridge, Sophonisha, 32

Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 83, 158

Briggs Act (Massechusetts), 40-41, 47

Britain.

See United Kingdom

Bromberg, Walter, 62, 100

Brownmiller, Susan, 135

Bryant, Anita, 124-25, 157

Burgess, Ann, 128

Burgess, Anthony.

See Clockwork Orange

Burroughs, William S., 106

Butler, Josephine, 28, 230

C

California: molesters, 194;

morality campaigns, 124-25;
murders in, 51, 55;
notification, 201,
prisons, 190,
sex laws, 23,
sexual predator legislation, 192, 200, 203;
sexual psychopath laws, 88;
statute of limitations, 183;
sterilization and castration, 43, 206;
three strikes law, 197;
vigilantism, 62.
See also
Atascadero, Calif.;
Bakersfield,Calif.;
Fresno. Calif.;
Klaas, Polly;
Los Angeles, Calif.;
McMartin pre-school, child abuse case at;
Petaluma, Calif.;
San Diego, Calif.,
San Francisco, Calif.;
San Jose, Calif.;
Stroble, Fred;
Wilson, Pete (Governor)

Canada, 25,157,166-69,203, 230-31

Cannibalism, 49-50,174

Capital punishment, 22, 26.

See also Linching

Carnal abuse, 23, 26, 76, 81, 85

Carroll, Lewis, 75

Castration.

See Sterilization

Ceci, Stephen, 184

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 112, 174

Chaddock, Charles G., 28-29, 35

Chauncey, George, 5, 73

Chessman, Caryl, 97

Chicago, Illinois:

County Hospital, 31--32;
homosexuality in, 63, 125;
juvenile court, 32--33;
Morals Court, 22;
murders in, 35, 50;
pornography in, 122;
prostitution in, 27-28, 226;
sex bureau, 80;
vice commission, 38;
World's Fair (1893), 35.
See also
Bernardin, Joseph (Cardinal);
Press: Chicago Tribune

Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (1974), 119

Child care, 171, 228-29.

See also Ritual child abuse

Child pornography:

early history of, 37;
fictional depictions, 160, 195;
industry, 146-48, 153--54;
investigation of, 152-57, 219;
laws against, 148-54 ,218, 227;
molestation and, 123, 131, 139, 147-48, 152, 157-60,165-66,174;
protests against, 121-25,135;
scale of, 7, 146-48.
See also
Pedophiles;
Pornography;
Ritual child ahuse;
Sex rings

Child Protection Act (1984), 149

Child Protective Services, 220

Children;

missing and endangered, 132-34, 139, 157-60;
murders of, 10-11, 51, 68, 70, 132--34, 147, 158-60, 195;
as witnesses, 33--34, 78, 84, 141-43, 202.
See also
Child sexual abuse;
Kidnapping;
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC);
Ritual child abuse

Children's Defense Fund, 120,129

Children's Justice Act (1986),129

Child-saving movement, 29, 44-45, 226.

See also
Massachusetts: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Children;
New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Children

Child sexual abuse:

definitions of, xi-xii, 119-21, 127~32;
origins of term, 22, 120, 243;
reporting of, 119-20, 129;
scale of, 129-32.
See also
Child pornography;
Defilers;
Degenerates;
Feminism;
Molesters and molestation;
Pedophiles;
Ritual child abuse;
Sex fiends;
Sex rings;
Sexual predators;
Sexual psychopath laws

Child witnesses.

See Children: as witnesses

Churches, and child molestation, .53, 122, 135, 155, 166, 17.5, 220,229.

See also "Pedophile priests"

Cincinnati, Ohio, 36: 40, 209

Cinema:

censorship debates, 152;
conspiracy theory, 112;
drug panics, 55;
libertarian view of molesters, 106-9;
mental hospitals in, 84,173;
racial fears, 26, 9.5;
sexual predators theme, 139, 196;
sexual psychopath theme, 56, 61, 75-76, 221;
women under threat, 72.
See also
Television movies

Circumcision, 14

Civil commitment, 41-42, 84,111, 192.

See also
Mental hospitals;
Psychiatry;
Sexual predators

Clergy sexual abusee

See: "Pedophile priests"

Cleveland, Ohio:

serial murders in, 50, 54, 57;
sex offellders panic in, 54

Clinton, Bill, 151, 172, 198-99, 212-13

Clockwork Orange, 112, 116

Cohen, Stanley, 6

Colorado, 36, 113, 190, 194

Columbia, District of,

See: Washington, D.C.

Communication Decency Act (CDA), 209--13

Communism and anti-communism, 64-65

CompuServe, 209

Computers

See
Cyberporn;
Internet

Connecticut, 110,205,235

Consent, age of,

See:
Age of consent;
Statutory rape

Conspiracy theory, 112, 172-7.5.

See also: Ritual child abuse

Constructionism, social, 3-10

Corll, Dean, 99, 221

Courage to Heal, The, 130, 147, 175, 181, 187

Crane, Stephen, 27

Crime-disease analogy, 28, 40, 80, 83.

See also
Criminological theory: Positivism;
Epidemic imagery

Criminological theory:

Positivism, 21, 36, 38-40, 50;
radical criminology, 109-10.
See aso
Defective delinquents;
Sexual psychopath laws;
Sexual predators;
Sutherland, Edwin;
Tappan, Paul

Crimmins, Barry, 211-12

Cults and anti-cult movements, 7, 63, 173,

See also
Ritual child abuse;
Satanism

Customs Service (U.S.), 152, 209, 220

Cybelporn,208-14

Cyberspace

See
Cyberporn;
Internet


D

Davis, Richard Allen, 197-98

Defective delinquents, 11, 15, 39-42, 47, 82 

Defilers, xi, 30, 53, 61, 103

Degenerates: 

child molesters as, 37-38 
homosexuals as, 81, 83; 
laws against, 43, 81, 83; 
loose terminology, 8 
origin of concept, 27; 
sexual violence and, 41, 51-52, 56

Delaware, 24

Delinquency 

See 
Defective delinquents;
Juvenile court;
juvenile delinquency; 
sex delinquency

D'Emilio, John, 5

Demographic factors, 72, 223-29, 236 

Denial, concept of, xi, 2-3,132,172, 181 

Densen-Gerber, Judianne, 121-23, 147, 175

De River, J. Paul, 255-56, 260 

Detroit, Michigan, 63

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 64-65, 124, 161

"Dirty old men," 37-'38

District of Columbia. See Washington, DC.

Dodd, Christopher, 129

Dudd, Westley Alan, 9--11, 13,193,196, 213-14, 221

Doshay, Lewis, 63, 67-68, 228 

Dostoevsky, Fyudor, 145

Double jeopardy, 82, 115, 204. 

See also: Sexual predators

Drug abuse, 19, 55, 64, 110, 120, 123, 174, 224-26

Due process revolution, 109--17

E

Edenton, North Carolina, 168, 171. 

See also: Ritual child abuse

Edholm, Charlton, 28, 44 

Ellis, Albert, 71

Ellis, Havelock, 100

Elton, Kenneth, 20-21, 24, 37, 41, 47 

Encryption, 213. 

See also: Internet 

Ephebophilia, 7, 101. 

See also: Child sexual abuse, definitions of

Epidemic imagery, 120, 129, 133, 135, 190, 222

Escalation theory of sex offenses, 9, 65 

Eugenics, 3, 27, 42-44, 47. 

See also 
Degeneration; Sterilization

Executions

See
Capital punishment
Lynching

Exhibitionism:

child abuse, 53;
precursor to sexual violence, 9, 60, 68;
sexual crime, 13, 58, 80, 88, 100, 114;
unreported crime, 53;
victimless crime, 70, 102-3, 115

Exon, james, 209-10, 218

Ex post facto laws, 192, 203-4

See also: Sexual predators

F 

False charges of abuse. 30, 117

See also
Memories, false and recovered;
Ritual child abuse

False memory. 

See: Memories, false and recovered

False Memory Syndrome Foundation, 183, 187

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 16, 45, 55-56, 64, 68, 148, 222, 231. 

See also 
Gunderson, Ted; 
Hoover,J. Edgar; 
Lanning, Kenneth

Feminism: 

child sexual abuse and, 118, 127-32, 141, 217; 
economic basis, 229, 232-34; 
rape and, 125-28, 217; 
suffrage movement, 44, 217. 
See also 
Abortion; 
Child sexual abuse; 
Pornography; 
Rape; 
Sexual harassment

Fernald, Walter, 39 

Ferri, Enrico, 40

Fiction. 

See 
Bloch, Robert; 
Burroughs, William S.; 
Crane, Stephen; 
Hamilton, Jane; 
Hawthorne, Nathaniel; 
Jackson, Charles; 
Kesey, Ken; 
Lee, Harper; 
Nabokov, Vladimir; 
OrwelI, George; 
Silko, Leslie Marmon; 
Smiley, Jane; 
Stadler, Matthew; 
Thompson, Jim; 
Vachss, Andrew


Films. 

See 
Cinema; 
Television movies 

Finkelhor. David. 5. 186

Fish, Albert, 9,49-51, 56, 58, 76, 79, 221

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 103 

Florida, 96,124, 132, 207, 235

Fornication, 22-23, 75, 110, 235 

Fosdick, Raymond B., 215 

Foucault, Michel, 27 

Frank, Leo, 36 

Franklin, Ellen, 180, 182 

Freedman, Estelle, 5 

Fresno, California, 54

Freud, Sigmund, 15,34, 62, 172, 180, 

See also 
Psychiatry; 
Therapy and therapists

Frotteurs, 52, 103

G

Gay ctivism. 

See: Homosexualilty 

Gebhard, Paul, 99. 135 

Gender roles

See: Feminism 

Georgia, 23 

See also: Atlanta, Georgia, murder cases in

Gibb, W, Travis, 29-34, 127 

Glueck, Sheldon, 47

GoIdberg, Jacob and Rosamond, 45-46, 217, 222

Gosh. Johny, 149

Grassley, Charles E., 208-11, 218 

Grateful Dead, 107

Greeley, Andrew, 170 

Guardian Angels, 207

Gunderson, Ted, 155, 168 

Guthrie, Arlo, 107

Guttmacher, Manfred S., 47-48, 91, 101

H

Hall, Stuart, 6

Hamilton, Jane, 187

Hawkins, Paula, 132-34

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 200

Healy, William, 34,44, 47,100 

Hebephilia. 

See: Ephebophilia

Heirens, William, 49, 56, 58, 61, 75, 91 

Hendricks, Leroy, 

See Supreme Court, U,S,: Hendricks

Herman, Judith, 128, 181, 187 

Hess, Albert, 100

Holmes, H, H., 35-36

Homosexuality: 

gay activism, 63, 106, 124-25; 
juvenile,68; 
laws against, 22; 
moral activism against, 17, 124-25,160-63; 
pedophilia, claimed relationship to, 61-64, 124-25, 160-62; 
psychopathy and, 61--66; 
sex crime, 70, 75, 99; 
sexual psychopath statutes and, 70-71, 85-87, 90; 
sterilization and, 43; 
subculture of, 27, 46. 
See also 
Lesbians; 
Sodomy

Hoover, J. Edgar, 55-56, 66, 125-26, 137, 193, 218. 

See also: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Houston, Texas, 99

Human sacrifice, 12, 18, 57, 168-75. 

See also 
Anti-Semitism; 
Ritual child abuse

I

Idaho, 54, 235. 

See also: Boise, Idaho

Illinois, 23, 82, 106, 192. 

See also: Chicago, Ill. 

Immigration, 29, 47,226

Impairing the morals of a minor (criminal offense), 66, 76-77, 81

Incest:

damage caused by, 103-4; 
legal view, 25, 85; 
literary theme, 260; 
major social problem, 13, 32--34, 45, 131,135--36, 214; 
precursor to violence, 81; 
rarity of, 100, 103-4. 
See also 
Child sexual abuse; 
Memories, false and recovered; 
"Survivor" concept; 
Therapy and therapists

Indeterminate sentencing. 

See 
Criminological theory; 
Sexual predators; 
Sexual psychopath laws

Indiana, 21, 42, 82-83, 88, 200 

Inglewood, Califomia, 251 

Ingram, Paul, 184

"lntergenerational" sex, 8, 145,160 

International Lesbian and Gay Association, 162-63 

Internet, 18, 151, 189, 193, 199-200, 206-13, 220, 229-30. 

See also 
Cyberporn; 
Encryption; 
Pornography

Iowa, 43, 116, 208

J

Jackson, Charles, 57

"Jack the Ripper," 35-37, 56

Jordan, Minnesota, 134,141-42, 168. 

See also: Ritual child abuse

Justice Department (U.S.), 129, 133-34, 151-52, 198, 212-13, 224

Juvenile court, 29, 32, 110-11

Juvenile delinquency, 46, 110-11, 226. 

See also: Sex delinquency

K

Kadish, Sanford, 109

Kanka, Megan. 11,197-98, 237. 

See also: Megan's Law

Kansas, 90, 124, 192, 201--4

Karpman, Benjamin, 20, 59, 61-62, 64-66, 91, 100, 105

Kempe, C. Henry, 104, 128 

Kentucky, 211

Kesey, Ken, 112

Kidnapping, 45, 50, 110, 132, 195-97. 

See also: Children: missing and endangered 

Kinsey, Alfred, 70-71, 78,103-4, 127, 129-300, 222

Kittrie, Nicolas N., 5, 87, 111 

Klaas Marc, 197, 199

Klaas Polly, 11, 196-97, 199, 237

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 15, 28, 38, 40, 100

L

Lanning. Kenneth, 159, 177-78, 231 

Lee, Harper, 95

Lent, Lewis, 195-96

Leonard, Robert F., 123, 125, 155 

Lesbians, 63, 162

Lindbergh kidnapping case, 50 

Lloyd, Robin, 122, 147 

Lombroso, Cesare, 36, 40 

Lords, Traci, 150

Los Angeles, California: 

murders in, 53--54; 
Police Department, 64, 123, 125, 147, 167; 
prosecutors, 63; 
ritual albuse, 170); 
vice, 147, 153. 
See also 
California; 
McMartin pre-school, child abuse case at; 
Press: Los Angelos Times

Louisiana, 155, 200-201. 

See also: New Orleans, La

Louisville, Kentucky. 160 

Lynching, 26, 95-98, 223

M

McCarthy, Joseph, 64

MacDonald, Arthur, 39 

McGee, Willie, 96
MacKinnon, Catherine, 149

McMartin pre-school, child abuse case at, 134, 146, 166-75, 178, 186, 237. 

See also: Ritual child abuse

McNeil, Edward, 115

McQuay, Larry Don, 206 

Mann Act, 44-45, 55. 

See also: Prostitution 

Marks, Lawrence, 51, 58, 61 

Martin, Lloyd, 123, 147, 154 

Martinsville, Va., 96

Maryland: 

abuse cases in, 207; 
sexual psychopath legislation, 82, 85,114-15. 
See also 
Baltimore, Md.; 
Patuxent

Massachusetts: 

abuse cases, 129, 187; 
clergy abuse, 195; 
molesters, 38; 
murders in, 37; 
sex laws, 14, 22-23, 46; 
sexual psychopath laws, 82-84, 89; 
sex rings, 157-58; 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Children, 31. 
See also 
Boston, Mass.; 
Bridgewater, Mass.; 
Briggs Act (Mass.); 
Revere, Mass.; 
Witches and witch-hunts: Salem witch trials

Masters, Edgar Lee, 20, 25

Masturbation, 13, 21, 23, 30, 42, 68-69, 77, 228 

Mattachine Society, 156 

Maudsley, Henry, 38

Mayors Committee. 

See: New York City: Mayor's Committee

Media. 

See 
Cinema; 
Press; 
Television news and documentary programs

Meese, Edwin, 225; 

Meese Commission on Pornography, 133, 148, 159, 166, 206

Megan's Law, 197-202, 238

Memories, false and recovered, 180-88, 233-34. 

See also 
False Memory Syndrome Foundation; 
Multiple personality disorder (MPD); 
Retractors; 
Ritual child abuse; 
"Survivor" concept; 
Therapy and therapists

Mental deficiency. 

See: Defective delinquents 

Mental hospitals, 70, 84, 112, 204-5. 

See also: 
Civil commitment; 
Psychiatry; 
St. Elizabeth's Hospital

Michaels, Kelly, 177, 179-80,184, 187 

Michelle Remembers,166-67, 177, 181 

Michigan: 

adultery law, 14; 
child pornography, 123; 
psychosurgery, 117; 
sex crime panic, 55, 73-74, 85; 
sexual psychopath statute, 81, 85, 87, 89. 
See also 
Detroit, Mich.; 
Leonard, Robert F. 

Miller, Arthur, I78

Minnesota, 82, 88, 124, 192, 200, 207. 

See also: Jordan, Minn.

Missing children. 

See 
Children, missing and endangered; 
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) 

Mississippi, 96

Missouri, 27, 80, 83. 

See also St. Louis, Mo. 

Mitford, Jessica, 113

Mohr, Johann W., 100, 104-5

Molesters and molestation, 72, 98-100,135, 137, 

See also 
Child sexual abuse; 
Defilers; 
Pedophiles;
 Ritual child abuse

Mondale, Walter, 119 

Moral panics, 6-8

Morgan, Elizabeth, 141

Movies, 

See
Cinema; 
Television movies 

Multiple personality disorder (MPD), 170, 173-74, 185, 

See also 
Memories, false and recovered; 
Ritual child abuse

Murder, child, 

See 
Children: murders of; 
Dodd, Westley Alan; 
Serial murder; 
Stroble, Fred

N

Nabokov, Vladimir, 106

NAMBLA, 

See: North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA)

Napanoch, 41

National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN), 120, 128, 178

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), 128, 131-,32, 134, 140, 209

National District Attorney's Association, 123, 157

National Organization for Women, 126, 162 

Nebraska, 35, 153, 174-75, 209, 237 

Necrophilia, 100 

Nesler, EIlie, 195

Netherlands, 146, 156, 169, 231 

Nevada, 23

New Hampshire, 59, 85

New Jersey, 50, 55, 70, 85-87, 93, 106, 197-98, 202-1, 

See also: 
Kanka, Megan; 
Michaels, Kelly; 
Tappan, Paul

New Orleans, Louisiana, 154 

News media, 

See 
Press; 
Television news and documentary programs

Newspapers, 

See: Press

New York City: 

Bellevue Hospital, 81; 
child molestation in, 52, 80; 
Children's Court, 30, 33, 67; 
Covenant House, 148; 
homosexuality in, 46, 64, 162; 
indecent exposure, 78; 
jails, 58; 
Mayor's Committee, 65-67, 80, 102-5; 
murders in, 35-38, 42, 51-52; 
police, 97, 122; 
Radical Feminists, 127; 
rape in, 77; 
sex bureau, 80; 
sex crime panics, 51-52, 64, 66; 
sexually transmitted diseases in, 31-32, 45; 
slum housiug in, 30-32; 
vice in, 27, 122, 147, 226-27. 
See also 
Patz, Etan; 
Press: New York Times

New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Children, 29--30, 216

New York state, 23-24, 33, 55, 83, 92, 97, 106, 196, 201-02. 

See also 
Attica; 
New York City; 
Sing Sing

North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), 156-63, 166, 174, 206

North Carolina, 26, 96. 

See also: Edenton, N.C. 

Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 221 

North Dakota, 36

Notification laws. 

See: Megan's Law 

Novels. 

See: Fiction

O

Obscenity. 

See 
Child pornography; 
Pornography

Ohio, 85,115. 

See also 
Cincinnati, Ohio; 
Cleveland, Ohio

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 152, 212 

Olsen, Jack, 194

Oral sex. 22-23, 30, 102, 130. 

See also: Sodomy

Oregon, 83-84, 161, 200 

Orwell, George, 75

Ossido, Sluvatore, 51, 79

P

Paglia, Camille, 161

Parkhurst, Rev. Charles, 27 

Patulxent, 114-15

Patz, Etan, 132, 158-59, 162

Pederasts, 7, 42, 62, 156-57, 162, 273 

Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE), 230 

"Pedophile priests", 170---71, 183-84. 195-96

See also: Churches arid child molestation 

Pedophiles: 

damage caused by, 53--54, 137-38; 
numbers of, 137; 
origin of term, 15, 27; 
psychiatric views of. 99-102, 161, 190-91; 
sexual psychopath legislation and, 85; 
vague use of term, xi-xii, 8, 195; 
violent behavior of, 8, 93, 99, 190-91. 
See also 
Child sexual abuse; 
Defilers; 
Molesters and molestation; 
Sex rings; 
Sexual predators

Pedophilia

See 
Child sexual abuse; 
Homosexuality; 
Molesters and molestation; 
Pedophiles; 
Ritual child abuse; 
Sexual predators

Pennsylvania, 25-26, 55, 70, 82-83. 

See also 
Philadelphia, Pa.; 
Pittsburgh, Pa.

Perverts and perversion: 

child molesters, 54, 80-81; 
homosexuality, 43, 61, 64, 70, 81; 
origins of concept, 15, 27-30; 
psychiatric views, 61; 
revival of term, 211-12; 
sexual violence, 34-36, 51

Petaluma, California, 197

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 

Municipal Court, 39; 
murders in, 35, 59; 
pornography in, 122; 
vice cases, 27, 195 

Piper, Thomas, 35

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 63-64 

Plea bargaining, 46, 76-78

Ploscowe, Morris, 46, 65, 71, 93, 99, 215 

Police: 

interrogation practices, 41-42, 46, 91, 110; 
investigation, 61, 103; 
training, 60, 73, 168; 
vice squads, 64, 157. 
See also: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Pollens, Bertram, 58, 60, 78-79 

Pomeroy, Jesse, 35, 58 

Pomeroy, Wardell, 104

Popular culture. 

See 
Cinema; 
Press; 
Television movies; 
Television news and documentary programs

Pornography, 23, 58, 85, 109-10, 121. 

See also 
Child pornography; 
Cyberporn; 
Meese, Edwin; 
Meese Commission on Pornography

Positivism. 

See: Criminological theory

Postal Service (U.S.), 152-54, 220, 223 

Predators 

See:' Sexual predators

Press: 

Boston Globe, 157; 
Chicago Tribune, 122-23, 125, 154; 
Christian Century, 52; 
Christian Science Monitor, 147; 
Cleveland News, 54: 
Collier's Magazine, 52-53; 
Coronet, 52, 64; 
Lady's Home Journal, 72, 135; 
Life, 140; 
Los Angeles Times, 130; 
Ms, 122, 130, 135, 170; 
Nation, 52; 
Newsweek, ,52, 122, 140, 183, 187, 196, 207, 211, 214, 229; 
New York Times, 41, 57-58, 70, 95-99, 129, 137, 140-41, 153-54, 167, 183, 192, 207; 
Parents, 72, 122; 
RedBook, 122, 178, 196; 
San Francisco Chronicle, 180: 
Saturday Evening Post, 58, 60; 
Spectator, 208; 
standards of newsworthiness, 44-45, 219; 
Time, 52, 62, 159, 167, 179, 183, 196, 211; 
U.S. News and World Report, 122, 161; 
Wall Street journal, 179; 
Washington Post, 83, 153, 207; 
See also: Television news and documentary programs

Prisons, 112-13, 190, 204

Problems, social. 

See: Social problems, construction of

Progressive era: 

incest in, 13, 21, 119; 
political coalitions, 21, 43--46; 
psychiatric theory, 38-42; 
"sex fiend" image, 2, 6, 13, 34-38; 
social investigators, 27-34, 102, 105. 
See also 
Child-saving movement; 
Defective delinquents; 
Eugenics; 
Feminism; 
Temperance movement

Proselytism, 63

Prostitution, 33, 39: 

child prostitution, 27-28; 
white slavery, 43, 122. 
See also: Mann Act

Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act (1978), 149

Psychiatry, 44, 58-59, 73, 84, 90--91, 111-12, 219, 233. 

See also 
Civil commitment; 
Mental hospitals; 
Therapy and therapists

Psychopaths, 38-40, 47-48, 59-62, 136, 196, 229. 

See also: Sexual psychopath laws

Q

Quindlen, Anna, 177, 186

R

Rape, 29, 31, 43, 53, 76-77, 95, 139. 196, 220. 

See also 
Feminism: rape and; 
Statutory rape

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 57, 98-99, 140

Reagan, Ronald, 121, 128, 224

Recidivism, 39-40, 66-88, 70, 101-2, 190, 205. 

See also: Sexual predators

Recovered memory. 

See: Memories, false and recovered

Reed, Ralph, 210

Rene Guyon Society, 145, 159-60 

Retractors, 185, 233

Revere, Massachussets, 157 

Rimm, Martin, 210--11 

Ritter, Bruce, 148 

Ritual child abuse: 

collapse of idea, 175-80; 
coalitions against, 17-18, 172-74, 219; 
criticisms of, xii, 175-80; 
imagery, 207, 229; 
international dissemination, 231; 
origins of concept, 165-75. 
See also 
Human sacrifice; 
McMartin pre-school, child abuse case at; 
Multiple personality disorder (MPD); 
Satanism; 
Witches and witch-hunts

Ritual murder. 

See: Human sacrifice 

Rivera, Geraldo, 169, 175 

Robinson, Alonzo, 50-51 

Rock music, 107, 109, 173

Rush, Florence, 118, 127, 136

Russell, Diana E. H., 126, 128, 131, 135-37, 162

S

Sadomasochism, 13, 60, 62, 64, 85, 161-02, 210

St. Elizabeth's Hospital, 21, 83

St. Louis, Missouri, 31, 54-55, 60, 83

Salem witch trials. 

See: Witches and witch-hunts: Salem witch trials

San Diego, California, 170

San Francisco, California, 131, 161, 197, 226

San Jose, California, 207

Satanic and Ritual Abuse (SRA). 

See 
Ritual child abuse; 
Satanism

Satanism, 72, 175--77. 

See also: Ritual child abuse

Savings and loan scandals, 174, 237 

Savitz, Eddie, 195

Schmideberg, Melitta, 91 

Scottsboro Boys, 95

Seattle, Washington, 191

Serial murder, 35-38, 49--51, 132-34, 191. 

See also: Children: murders of

Sex delinquenncy, 32-33

Sex fiends, 8, 35-37, 54-55, 70, 82

Sex offenders. 

See 
Bestiality; 
Child sexual abuse; 
Defilers; 
Degenerates; 
Exhihitionism; 
Incest; 
Masturbation; 
Molesters and molestation; 
Pedophiles; 
Perverts and perversion; 
Sadomasochism; 
Sex fiends; 
Sexual predators; 
Sexual psychopath laws; 
statutory rape; 
Voyeurism

Sex offenders, treatment of, 89-90, 112, 116-18, 205-6, 236. 

See also: Psychiatry

Sex rings, 153-03, 168, 207-8, 222. 

See also: Ritual child abuse

Sexual harassment, 3, 137, 232-33 

Sexualized children, 227-28

Sexually transmitted diseases, 3, 27, 29-34, 39, 45, 102. 

See also: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS )

Sexual predators: 

concept of, 2, 5, 193-95; 
courts and, 202-5; 
legislation against, 191-94, 197-202. 
See also 
Child sexual abuse; 
Megan's Law; 
Molesters and molestation; 
Pedophiles; 
Sexual psychopath laws

Sexual psychopath laws: 

collapse of, 113-17, 204; 
criticism of: 11-12, 90-93, 215; 
implementation of, 80, 87-90; 
origins of, 16, 71, 80-84; 
provisions of, 84-87. 
See also 
Criminological theory; 
Psychopaths; 
Sexual predators

Shriner, Earl K., 191, 193 

Shultz, GIadys, 125-26

Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1, 55-56 

Simon, Paul, 133, 218

Sing Sing, 47, 49, 80, 91 

Smiley, Jane, 182 

Social problems, Construction of, 3-10

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Children, 

See 
Massachusetts: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Children; 
New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Children

Sodomy: 

definition of, 13-14, 70-71, 131; 
history of concept, 22-23, 26; 
homosexuality and, 61-62, 64, 86; 
laws against, 76, 81, 85; 
liberalization of laws 124 
See also: 
Anal sex; 
Oral sex

South Africa, 169, 231 

Specter, Arlen. 132-35, 149. 159, 199. 218 

Stadler, Matthew, 205, 237

Stalking, 3, 194. 

See also: Internet Statute of limitations, 183

Statutory rape, 23-25, 66, 85, 98, 116, 202, 215

Stead, W. T., 28, 230

Sterilization, 42-43, 206

Stroble, Fred, 54, 58, 78, 201 

Sturges Jack, 151

Summit, Roland, 186

Supreme Court, U.S.: 

Buck v. Bell, 43; 
Coy v Iowa, 142; 
Gault, 111; 
Griswold, 110; 
Hendricks, 203-4; 
Knox v. U.S., 151; 
McNeil, 115; 
Maryland v. Craig, 143, 150; 
Miranda, 110, 114; 
New York v. Ferber; 150; 
Osbome v. Ohio, 150; 
Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 213; 
Roe v. Wade, 110; 
Roth, 110; 
Specht v Patterson, 113

"Survivor" concept, xii, 18, 138,181-88, 234. 

See also 
Incest; 
Memories, false and recovered

Sutherland, Edwin, 5, 60, 68-70, 98

T

Tailhook scandal, 182 

Tales From The Crypt, 57

Tappan, Paul, 70-71,92-93, 103, 137 

Television movies, 139, 170, 184, 195-96, 

See also: Cinema

Television news and documentary programs: 

48 Hours, 193-94, 196; 
Frontline, 178, 185, 193; 
Phil Donahue Show, 187; 
Primetime Live, 178, 183-84, 197; 
6o Minutes, 122, 132, 153, 168, 178, 182-83; 
Turning Point, 180; 
20/20, 132, 170, 178, 181--84, 
See also: Wooden, Kenneth

Temperance movement, 44-45

Tennessee, 25, 194

Texas, 50, 190, 207. 

See also: Housston, Tex. 

Therapy and therapists, 138, 142, 171-75, 217, 233-34, 

See also 
Memories, false and recovered; 
Psychiatry; 
Ritual child abuse

Thomas, Clarence, 182, 204 

Thompson, Gerald, 50 

Thompson, Jim, 56

Thorstad, David, 158, 162

Timmendequas Jesse K., 197, 204

U

UFOs, 185

United Kingdom, 156, 159,169, 230-31

V

Vachss, Andrew, 155. 160, 170. 187-89, 194 

Venereal disease, 

See: Sexually transmitted diseases

Vermont, 85

Victims, as Seducers, 104-6

Victims of Child Abuse Laws (VOCAL), 183, 187

Virgirlia, 96 

Seealso: Elton, Kenneth 

Voyeurism:

precursor to sexual violence, 37; 
prosecution difficult, 52; 
sexual crime, 58, 69, 85, 110; 
sexual psychopathy, 61, 88; 
victimless crime, 91, 103

W

Walsh, John, 132-34

War: 

first world war, 20; 
Korean war, 71-72, 226; 
second world war, 71-72, 226-27, 229; 
social impact of: 71-73, 226-27; 
Vietnam war, 113

Warren, Earl, 55

Washington, D,C., 50-51, 83-84, 90, 125, 158. 

See also: St. Elizabeth's Hospital 

Washington state: 

civil commitment, 205; 
murders in, 36; 
prisons, 190; 
rape in, 194; 
sexual predator legislation, 10, 191-93, 201-3; 
sexual psychopath legislation, 82, 89; 
statutory rape, 235, 
See also 
Dodd, Westley Alan; 
Seattle, Wash.; 
Shriner, Earl K.; 
Wenatchee, Wash.

Web, World Wide. 

See: Internet 

Weinberg, Samuel, 103

Weld, William (Governor), 235

Welfare, social, 216-17,226, 235; 

welfare reform,238

Wenatchee, Washington, 168, 179-80. 

See also: Ritual child abuse

Wertham, Fredric, 49, 52, 57, 230 

West Virginia, 26, 95 

White, William A., 47

White slavery. 

See: Prostitution: white slavery 

Whitman, Howard, 53,60,63,73, 78, 137, 201

Wickersham Commission (National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement ), 46-47

Wigmore, John Henry, 34, 40, 44, 78 

Wildmon, Daniel, 147 

Willard, Frances E., 44

Williams, Eugene D., 63

Wilson, Pete (Governor), 197, 206 

Winfrey, Oprah, 182

Wisconsin, 14, 84--85, 89, 106, 192, 203 

Witches and witch-hunts: 

child abuse analogy, 157,165,186, 222; 
medieval, 12, 176; 
Salem witch trials, 164, 166, 178-80, 188. 
See also: Ritual child abuse

Witnesses, child. 

See: Childrenb as witnesses 

Women, 

See: Feminism

Wooden, Kenneth, 123, 132-43, 140, 169

World wars. 

See: War

World Wide Web, 

See: Internet 

Wyoming, 23

Y

Yager, Faye, 141, 186