“The book argues that even though many cases have been held up as classic examples of modern American “witch hunts,” none of them fits that description. McMartin certainly comes close. But a careful examination of the evidence presented at trial… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
“The book argues that even though many cases have been held up as classic examples of modern American “witch hunts,” none of them fits… — Ross Cheit Copy Share
“The witch-hunt narrative is a really popular story that goes like this: Lots of people were falsely convicted of child sexual abuse in the… — Ross Cheit Copy Share
“For all this talk about us being a nation at war with child abuse, and for all the media hype about witch-hunts and false… — Ross Cheit Copy Share
“interview from Ross E. Cheit about The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Oxford University Press, February 2014). In the… — Ross Cheit Copy Share
“An undergraduate researching the "witch hunt" cases asked for evidence that there had been more than one hundred cases, noting that the major lists… — Ross Cheit Copy Share
“The Legend of Robert Halsey This article examines the criminal conviction of Robert Halsey for sexually abusing two young boys on his school-van route… — Ross Cheit Copy Share
“The witch-hunt narrative is now the conventional wisdom about these cases. That view is so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that so widely endorsed… — Ross Cheit Copy Share
