“Smoke and mirrors’ is a useful metaphor for the ways in which organised abuse has chided conceptualisation and understanding. The chapter provides… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“In order to establish the narrative that innocent men have been the victims of an epidemic of false allegations, “moral panic” advocates… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“Despite its popularity amongst critical criminologists, the empirical basis of the moral panic account of sexual abuse has been shown to be… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“The data on organised abuse has been simplified or distorted in an attempt force it to conform to mechanical psychological models of… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“Chapter 4,‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“Qualitative and quantitative research with adults and children reporting ritual abuse has found that it occurs alongside other forms of organised abuse,… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“The fact that most perpetrators of organised abuse are men, and that their most intensive and sadistic abuses are visited upon girls… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“Batley insisted that no cult existed but the jury found him guilty of 35 offences including 11 rapes. three indecent assaults, causing… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“In her book claiming that allegations of ritualistic abuse are mostly confabulations, La Fontaine’s (1998) comparison of social workers to ‘nazis’ shows… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportunity to articulate experiences that are otherwise excluded… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“There are a range of useful and illuminating analyses of the media construction of organised abuse as it became front-page news in… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, it remains the case that the psychological literature on organised abuse has not provided a coherent explanation for the emergence of… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“Like the psychological model outlined above, the psychiatric understanding of ’organised paedophilia’ is a framework that is focused primarily on individual psychological… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
“As mandatory reporting laws and community awareness drove an increase its child protection investigations throughout the 1980s, some children began to disclose… — Michael Salter Abuse Copy Share Image
